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An Tir KLOI from Tir Righ dated 2023-08-20 Greetings unto Black Lion, Lions Blood and the College of Heralds. Please find herein this month's submissions for Tir Righ. Commentary on this letter closes on September 20 2023. For their assistance with last month's internal items, we thank Jeanne Marie Palimpsest for her continued and much-appreciated coaching on names documentation, and Alicia le Wilfulle, Malyss Boar, and Mālik Lions Heart for their conflict checking and other contributions. Commentators, please cite references to SENA when noting problems. Please provide executive summaries for any extended commentary. Thank you.
 1: Andreyus bin Lazari -New Name (NP) & New Device
Azure, a chevron argent overall a natural tiger maintaining a sewing needle and in chief two hearts argent.
The following changes are allowed: Most everything, I want to keep Lazari as part of it though Client requests authenticity for 16th C Turkish. Sound (Something easy to pronounce) most important.
Tir Righ submission
Submitter is from Thornwold.
Andreyus is listed as a given male name that can identify the bearer as either Christian or Jewish.
Sixteenth-Century Turkish Names, Ursula Whitcher
https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ursula/ottoman/
Lazari is a derivative name of the biblical figure Lazarus, as listed in the DMNES under Eleazar with Lazarus is the Latinized form. Lazari is listed as an Italian Latin generative form.
https://dmnes.org/name/Eleazar
Per https://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#AppendixCItalian SENA App C Italian and Turkish are an acceptable mix post-1100.
Per Sixteenth-Century Turkish Names, Ursula Whitcher already linked above, Turkish names in-period use Arabic construction, bint being "daughter of".
Tir Righ submission
Submitter is from Thornwold.
Plain English blazon on the submission form is, "A rampant tiger holding a sewing needle on a blue ackground with a white chevron and two white hearts"
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
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2: Anthony Hawke -New Alternate Name (NP)
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2000, via An Tir.
Gnaeus Antonius Accipiter Pavo
Submitter desires a masculine name.
No major changes. The following changes are allowed: Allow switching of cognomen and agnoment; keeping Accipter more important than Pavo Client requests authenticity for mid to late Imperial Roman.
Tir Righ submission
Submitter is from Seagirt.
Note that this was submitted on the old v3 2012 name forms, which is still acceptable until December 2023 per Laurel's directives.
Gnaeus - found in A Simple Guide to Imperial Roman Names, Ursula Georges
Antonius - found in A Simple Guide to Imperial Roman Names, Ursula Georges
https://heraldry.sca.org/names/roman.html
Accipiter 'bird of prey, falcon, hawk' is intended as a cognomen based on the common noun found in Little and Short, A Latin Dictionary. The pattern of using birds as cognomina is found in G.D. Chase, The Origin of Roman Praenomina: III. The Cognomina, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol 8 1897, p 113 https://archive.org/details/jstor-310491 Examples are Merula 'blackbird', Corvus 'raven', and Buteo 'hawk'.
Pavo is a cognomen meaning peacock, found in the "Epigraphic Database Heidelberg" from the northern region of Italy https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD005261 - The transcription is L CEIVS PAVO :: We also have the cognomen in an article from Steele, August 12, 2021. doi:10.2307/4387594 - see attached image.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4387594?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_content
An example of a period name with an agnomen (4th name element) is Pubilius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (popularly known as Scipio Africanus) Correction to Alternate Name (2023-Aug-28 23:08:58): Should Accipiter not be found acceptable, submitter will accept Buteo in the cognomen (third) name slot.
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
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 3: Nadezhda Toranova -New Device Change
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2001, via An Tir.
Azure, three masks Or
Old Item: Sable, a cross moline argent, in canton a bezant., to be retained as a badge.
Tir Righ submission
Submitter is from Seagirt.
This device and the badge submitted along with it are the first submission and therefore defining instance of such a leather mask.
From the GIM Historical Museum, Russia:
http://nav.shm.ru/en/exhibits/1443/
Partial excerpt from that page:
Novgorod
The second half of the XIII century
A cattle's leather; a cutting out technique
13,5 x 15 cm
From: found by the archeological expedition to Novgorod led by A.B. Artsikhovsky; donated to the museum in 1967.
The mask depicts a laughing human face, which is emphasized by the narrowed slits for the eyes and the highly raised corners of the mouth with the exposed lower line of the teeth.
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
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 4: Nadezhda Toranova -New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2001, via An Tir.
(Fieldless) A mask Or charged on the sinister cheek with a goutte de sang.
Tir Righ submission
Submitter is from Seagirt.
This badge and the device submitted along with it are the first submission and therefore defining instance of such a leather mask.
From the GIM Historical Museum, Russia:
http://nav.shm.ru/en/exhibits/1443/
Partial excerpt from that page:
Novgorod
The second half of the XIII century
A cattle's leather; a cutting out technique
13,5 x 15 cm
From: found by the archeological expedition to Novgorod led by A.B. Artsikhovsky; donated to the museum in 1967.
The mask depicts a laughing human face, which is emphasized by the narrowed slits for the eyes and the highly raised corners of the mouth with the exposed lower line of the teeth
The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
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In Heraldic Service, Vémundr Syvursson Red Flame Herald Pily barry argent and azure.
OSCAR counts 1 Name, 1 Alternate Name, 1 Device, 1 Device Change and 1 Badge. There are a total of 5 items submitted on this letter. |