Le veritable art du blason : ou les regles des armoiries sont traitées d'vne nouuelle methode, plus aisée que les precedentes : les origines expliquees ..
A heraldry treatise by Claude-François Ménestrier, published in Lyon in 1659 by Benoist Coral, that teaches armorial rules through a new method meant for students of blazon. Its plates show coats of arms drawn as shields, each labelled with French tinctures and charge names in engraved lettering. A designer could take from them the clear shield silhouettes, the hatched and dotted patterns standing in for colours, and the tidy grid of labelled panels.
