Excerpt from El Escudo de Armas Nacionales: Monograf a Hist rica Documentada e Ilustrada Haciendo a un lado la Opini n de algunos autores que hacen remontar el origen del blas n a los tiempos de Ad n y de No , ya en la Biblia se habla de los s mbolos que dis tingu an a cada una de las tribus de Israel, y la historia consigna los que pose an desde los tiempos m s remotos, y particularmente a partir de la edad media, con los nombres de armas o blasones, los reinos, provincias, ciudades, corpo raciones, linajes e individuos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.