This heraldry manual offers a comprehensive compendium of those notions which are useful for recognizing and describing the coats of arms. The text is homogeneous and the heraldic language is updated. The work has a purely scientific character and excludes all elements of fantasy and symbolism that do not have concreteness and historical value.1st edition: December 1999, 1st reprint: March 2001, 2nd reprint: November 2007, 3rd reprint: October 2021.