Tricking

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This article is about the term relating to heraldry. For the acrobatics training discipline, see tricking (martial arts).

Tricking is a method for indicating the

hatching are the two primary methods employed in the system of heraldry
to show colour in black and white illustrations.

Tricked arms of John Browne of Spexhall, Suffolk (1591)
An example of early tricking. Coat of arms of Cardinal Giovanni di Aragona (1456–1485), archbishop of Esztergom [1]

Origin

Heraldry has always had some methods to designate the tinctures of arms. The earliest such method was blazon, which is describing the arms by words. The earliest surviving blazon is from the work of Chrétien de Troyes from the late 12th century.[2] The English heraldry system still uses a form of blazon almost unchanged since the reign of Edward I.

Traditionally, images in heraldic manuscripts such as

hatching, which is ascribing designations to the tinctures by means of lines and dots. While the first method was introduced and developed by the heralds, the second model was developed and adopted by the heraldists.[citation needed] In addition, some other methods were also in use such as giving designations to tinctures by using the numbers from 1 to 7.[citation needed
]

Until the 16th century, heraldic sources designated

argent with "a" for argentum; azure with "c" for caeruleus; gules with "r" for rubeus; and vert by "v" for viridis. Though the sign for sable
(niger in Latin) was not present in his system, traditionally it was designated with the black colour itself.

Decline

From the early 17th century, tricking declined. However, it is sometimes still in use, mainly in British heraldry.

hatching, since tricking was much easier to write and engrave. The College of Arms
gave preference to tricking even beyond the 17th century, sometimes even on the coloured and hatched images. However, tricking's letters were often traced badly since they were not always immediately understood, thus leading to erroneous interpretations.

Otto Titan von Hefner, a 19th-century German herald, maintained that the first traces of hatching on the woodcuts began during the 15th and 16th centuries. Both tricking as well as hatching were applied by Vincenzo Borghini, a Benedictine monk, philologist and outstanding historian. He drew a difference between the metals and the colours on the woodcuts of his work by leaving the places blank on the arms for all metals; similarly all colours were hatched by the same way, as the colour vert is being used today. Besides this, tinctures were designated in the fields and on the ordinaries and charges by tricking: R–rosso–gules, A–azure–azure, N–nigro–sable, G–gialbo–yellow (Or), and B–biancho–white (argent). Notably, vert was not present on the arms presented by him.

References

  1. Clement IX] (in Latin). Vol. 3. Philippi et Ant. De Rubeis. Column 65, XIX
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  2. ^ Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette, c.1178–c.1181[full citation needed]
  3. ^ Martin Schrot, Wappenbuch, 1576[full citation needed]
  4. Cristian Urstis, Baselische Chronik , (1580)[full citation needed]; Virgil Solis, Wappenbüchlein, 1555[full citation needed]; Johann von Francolin (1560)[full citation needed
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