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Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags, their history and symbolism.
Historical Flag Atlas
A study of flag depictions in historical publications. Each collected publication receives a source catalogue and flag index; notable depictions are examined on standalone flag pages that follow a flag across sources.
- /atlas/1720
- Source catalogue and flag index for the sheet Flaggen aller seefahrenden Potenzen und Nationen, by Johann Baptist Homann (Nuremberg, c. 1720).
- /atlas/1769
- Source catalogue and figure index for the plate Marine, Pavillons. from the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert (Paris, c. 1769).
- /atlas/1837
- Source catalogue and flag index for the sheet Pavillons et Cocardes des Principales Puissances du Globe, published by J. Andriveau-Goujon (Paris, 1837).
- /atlas/1863
- Source catalogue and flag index for the plate Pavillons des principales puissances (Paris, c. 1863).
- /atlas/1864
- Source catalogue and flag index for Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems, published by Johnson & Ward (New York, c. 1864).
- /atlas/1899
- Source catalogue and flag index for the sheet Flags of All Nations (American, c. 1899).
- /atlas/hawaii
- Hawaii (Sandwich Islands): documented flag history beside collected depictions, with a study of the c. 1863 panel.
- /atlas/east_india_company
- The East India Company ensign across the collection, c. 1720 to c. 1864 — canton and stripe-count variation, ending in an archaism.
- /atlas/spanish_standard
- The quartered Spanish standard of the chart tradition, 1837–1899 — a design repeated by charts yet scarcely documented outside them.