1. Heraldry, coats of arms, armory (especially as a collection)
Etymology: Coined by Sir Henry Spelman c. 1595 as the title to his treatise on coat armour. Sir Anthony Wagner argued in his A Catalogue of Mediaeval Arms (1950) that on etymological grounds a better form of the word would have been "Aspidologia," but retained Spelman's innovation.
The Matthew Paris Shields (c.1244-59); Glover's Roll (c.1253-8) and Walford's Roll (c.1273); Additions and Corrections to A Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms
Edited by Thomas Daniel Tremlett and Hugh Stanford London
