The penner and inkhorn is considered a single charge: a cylindrical container for pens, connected by cords to an ink bottle. It’s found in the armory borne by the Worshipful Company of Scriveners, 1530 (though not confirmed until 1634) [Bromley & Child 217]. For related charges, see penbox.
The College of Scribes of Caid bears: A penner and inkhorn argent.
Salomea Imhof bears: Purpure, three penners and inkhorns argent.
Samthann ingen Garbáin bears: Argent, three penners and inkhorns azure.
A penbox is a container for calligraphic supplies. In Society heraldry, it’s drawn in a highly abstract manner, as found in Middle Eastern armory of the 14th Century and later [Mayer 45]; it is usually blazoned a “Saracenic” or “Arabic” penbox for that reason. As a charge from outside Europe, the Arabic penbox carries a step from period practice. For related charges, see penner and inkhorn.
Sayf al-Qamar Tarik ibn Abdul bears: Sable, a fess between a scimitar fesswise inverted and an Arabic penbox fesswise argent.
Tahira of Carolingia bears: Sable, on a fess argent an Arabic penbox azure.
An ink bottle is a short, squat vessel for holding a writer’s ink; it’s also called an “ink flask”, “ink horn”, or “ink well”, though the shape remains unchanged. It’s normally found as half of a penner and inkhorn, but we have at least one period example of its use as a separate charge: the arms of Abbot, d.1487 [DBA2 314].
There is also the “ink pot”, more ornate and less portable than a standard ink bottle; though a period artifact, its use as a charge seems unique to Society heraldry. See also bottle, flask.
The West Kingdom College of Scribes bears: Sable, an ink flask Or.
The College of Boethius bears as a badge: Or, on an open book azure, an ink pot Or.
Ingrid the Fair bears: Or, three inkwells gules, on a chief azure a drakkar without sail argent.
