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| Title | [Bookplate] |
| Date Created | [unknown] |
| Description | A lion rampant holding a stemmed (slipped) rose above the entwined letters G or C and H, through which is woven a banner with the Latin phrase. The bookplate is rendered in some kind of red ink, which is raised from the paper both from embossing (visible on the back) and a way that the ink itself is raised from the paper. |
| Extent | 1 bookplate : 5.7 x 6.2 cm |
| Subject | Heraldry ; Monograms |
| Genre | Prints |
| Type | Still Image |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Language | Latin
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| Notes | This motto is, in British heraldry, traditionally associated with the Elliott [Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound] and Rathbone of Greenbank and Liverpool families. Use of the motto, however, does not indicate any ties to either family without greater supporting evidence. The owner and creator of this bookplate are unknown. This appears to be printed with a combination of die stamping and thermography. The reverse of the bookplate shows that the image was physically embossed (a hallmark of die stamping), but some of the finer details, like the shading on the motto ribbon, are raised on the front but not embossed into the reverse (a hallmark of thermography, which was frequently used to imitate die stamping).
References:
1) Burke, Bernard. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. London: Harrison & Sons, 1884. Accessed at http://books.google.ca/books?id=WmpmAAAAMAAJ. p. 321, 840.
2) Gascoigne, Bamber. How to Identify Prints. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 59a, 107 'thermography'.
3) Mair, James Allen, ed. Proverbs and Family mottoes with the Names of the Families by Whom They are Adopted. London: G. Routledge, 1891. Accessed at http://books.google.ca/books?id=NjJAAAAAYAAJ. p. 179. |
| Access Identifier | BP MUR SL P U738 |
| Digital Identifier | BP_MUR_SL_P_U738 |
| Is Part Of | RBSC Bookplates |
| Source | Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Alexander Binder. BP MUR SL P U738 |
| Date Available | 2013 |
| Publisher - Digital | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
| Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca |
| Transcript | SUAVITER ET FORTITER |
| Translation | Mildly and firmly |
| DOI | 1.0215767 |
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