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2.37.33: Annotation: "Aeternitatem Cogita"
2.38.15: Annotation: "Amat victoria curam"
5000.e.38: Bookplate: shield under coronet; flag with three lions, and 'No. 8' underneath
6000.e.19: Bookplate: armorial bookplate with motto "Tempus edax rerum"
7.40.11: Motto: "Deus providebit"
7.40.11: Motto: "Vere nobilis qui virtute notabilis"
7000.c.63: Annotation: Cortade
7000.d.1012: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1 & 4) Ermine, a cross gules, 2 & 3) Azure, three ducks proper; Spanish or French marquis' coronet [?]
7000.d.1037: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1 & 4) Ermine, a cross gules, 2 & 3) Azure, three ducks proper; Spanish or French marquis' coronet [?]
7000.d.1096: Bookplate: armorial binding, supported by lions
7000.d.1416: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial with supporters: Az, a bend or between three bezants, with Viscount's Coronet
7000.d.951: Bookplate: "Sapere aude"
7000.e.269: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1 & 4) Ermine, a cross gules, 2 & 3) Azure, three ducks proper; Spanish or French marquis' coronet [?]
7100.b.123: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Sa, an anchor between two mullets both ar, with Viscount's Coronet
7100.b.94: Bookplate: Obscurred by that of Baron Northwick
7350.b.17: Bookplate: Wreath, with annotation: Josefe Gariololica [?]
7560.d.192: Stamp: Watanabe Yoshi obi Nótai
7690.d.57: Bookplate: "Liberty is wealth" with initials FRE [?]
7706.c.71: Bookplate: "Faire mon devoir"
7706.d.307: Bookplate: damaged bookplate, shield with lion
7720.c.213: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Gu, three savages couped at waist, each armed with a club, impaling: ar, a lion rampant, ducally crowned.
7720.c.214: Bookplate: Armorial bookplate with no name or motto: lion rampant & 3 savages holding clubs
7735.b.59: Bookplate: Nordkirchen
From the town or castle library of Nordkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia?
7735.d.868: Bookplate: Az, on a bend ar three mullets gu, a chief or; Marquess's Coronet
7735.e.261: Bookplate: Mall-esa-ender
7735.e.262: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1 & 4) Ar, three bendlets gu, 2 & 3) Sa, a lion [?] rampant; Crest: from a ducal coronet, three ostrich plumes, on which a fleur de lis.
8000.c.459-460: Bookplate: "Ex libris"
8000.d.747-749: Bookplate: "Faire mon devoir", with horse holding arrow in mouth
8000.d.789: Bookplate: helmet in frame
8100.c.2216-: Bookplate: "Dum Licet Utere"
8720.d.564: Bookplate: "Non nobis nascimur"
A*.6.33(E): MS mottos: "Veritas liberabit"; "Armat spina rosas"
A*.6.33(E): Provenance: "Gratia ditat".
Acton.b.28.127: Armorial binding: arms of Bavaria
Acton.c.24.387: Armorial binding: Bavaria, Munchen 1846, pigskin(crushed)? - silver?
Acton.e.50.181: Armorial binding: Gouda
Arms appear to be those of the city of Gouda, adorned with a Dutch count's coronet.
Adams.7.56.6: Bookplate: crest with man's arm, in armour, with bare hand holding (?) the stem of a plant
Brett-Smith.625: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: a bend gu, between two talbots [?]
Bury.31.15-: Stamp: Vertrag vom 13(?) Marken(?)
C.2.28: Provenance: "The beste fruite is lasste ripe"
C.9.12: Provenance: "Ut hora sic vita"
C.9.12: Provenance: "Voluntas dei est quorum(?) necessitas"
C.9.17: Provenance: "Hac itur ad astra"
Cam.b.1.11.1: Armorial binding: Cambridge University Library, calf-gold
Cc.6.5: Provenance: Ferendo ferio
CCC.25.20: Stamp: Luftgau - Feldbücherei (and others in collection)
CCC.25.215: Bookplate: Luftwaffe Lazarett (Hôpital Français)
CCC.25.274: Bookplate: Lehrer-Bücherei der Gewerb. Berufsschule (and others in collection)
CCC.25.304: Stamp: Ovelgönnestr, 67
An address in Recklinghausen, Ruhr?
CCC.25.544-: Stamp: IX. Vol. 3 'Der Leiter der…Remscheid'
CCC.25.616: Stamp: Rektor der F[---] Schule in Kamen (Westf.)
CCC.25.63: Stamp: Luftgau - Feldbücherei, 2221 P.O.W. Camp
D*.3.1(C): Armorial binding: England Royal Arms, calf - blind
Dd*.3.39(E), item no. 5: Provenance: 'Quod videri vis, esto'
Dd*.3.39(E), item no. 5: Provenance: 'Sola virtus invicta'
Eee.57: Armorial binding: Amsterdam, vellum - gold
F.11.137: Inscription: 'Jesus Christ' (red ink)
F.12.64: Provenance: Wm. Co[ ]be, 1684
F.14.14: Armorial binding: Crest: Buck passant
F151.d.8.8: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Party per fess gu and or, two sexfoils in chief, a crescent and a sexfoil in base; Viscount's Coronet
F153.d.1.7: Bookplate: 'Virtutis Amore Cano'
F157.e.2.10: Stamp: 'Biblio. Com. Cler. Reg. S. M.'
F158.d.2.21: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Az, a fess or between in chief, a passion cross, in base, a lion's head erased, over all a bishop's galero
F160.e.3.1: Binding: escutcheon with fess; Crest: from a ducal coronet a lion crowned and tongued
F161.c.2.3: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial imposed on a vase: Or, a chevron Sa. Between three bulls statant
F166.e.5.17: Bookplate: monogram with letters T D M A, two O's and 3 N's?
F168.c.4.2: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1) Gu, a stork passant, 2 & 3) Or, three pales azure, a chief of the second with ducal coronet, 4) Gu, a tassel [?], on an escutcheon: A chinaman holding silk [?]; Viscount's Coronet
Fff.7: Armorial binding: Amsterdam, vellum - gold, presented by S. Gaselee, with two panels and an additional stamp on spine
G.6.54: Provenance: ( ) Brides-all, 1574
H*.12.38(F): Provenance: "Rege et regna. 1562"
H.15.30: Provenance: "Nervus sapientia diffidert"
Hib.7.742.8: Bookplate: Baron's Coronet, from a sale, 1892, of a Glasgow merchant
Hib.7.750.6: Bookplate: Baron's Coronet, from a sale, 1892, of a Glasgow merchant
Hib.7.875.6: Stamp: Craobh ar D-Teangadh Fein, Beilfeirsde
K*.16.7(E): Inscribed: Ειμι тоu Αδαμοʟοʊ (?), 1644
Keynes.D.5.16: Bookplate: "Recte et suaviter"
Keynes.P.7.19: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Ar, a fess dancettée, with crest.
Keynes.Q.1.6: Bookplate: "Nunquam otiosus"; Initial: 'M'
Unknown arms are incorporated into the insignia of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, suggesting the owner was a member of this organisation.
Keynes.Q.3.25: Stamp: "Non nobis nati"
Possibly: Frank of Boutridge, Scotland.
Keynes.Q.3.30: Bookplate: [monogram] below coronet
Keynes.R.2.15: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Az, a lion rampant; Crest: On a tree stump, a lion sejant holding a battle axe; Artist: William Henry Toms
Keynes.R.3.27: Bookplate: Anonymous Crest: Demi lion, rampant, gu, gorged or with three torteaux.
Keynes.R.6.18: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Ar, on a fess sa a rose, in chief, three mullets pierced sa; Crest: on a perch, a falcon close
Keynes.S.1.12: Bookplate: Marquess Coronet, with Monogram: 'SSE' [?]
Keynes.S.1.2: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Gu, a fess ermine withing a bordure engrailed of the second, with mullet as a mark of cadency; Crest: arm couped at the elbow, the hand grasping a sword, hilted and pommelled, pierced through the jaws of a wolf's head.
Keynes.S.1.22: Bookplate: slightly imperfect bookplate with motto: "[T]empus edax rerum"
Keynes.S.7.3: Bookplate: "Invidos virtute torquebo"; Arms: on a chevron between three trefoils slipped vert, a [bear's] head erased; Crest: Dexter arm holding a heart.
Keynes.T.7.8: Stamp: Between three mullets, a lion's paw erased holding [?]
L*.11.12(D): Provenance: "Virtus vera nobilitas", pt. 2
L*.11.6(D): Provenance: Sic itur ad astra
L*.9.4(B): Motto: "Ad spes hortamur"
L.12.40: Provenance: "Vitiosam veta vitam", 1619
LE.24.27: Provenance: 'Sanguis erant lacryma: quacumque foramina novit'
LE.24.6: Armorial binding: Cambridge University, Rotherham Bequest
LE.8.113: Provenance: Ανεχου και απεχου (?)
Leigh.a.8.2: Bookplate: Viscount's Coronet, with Anonymous Armorial: A chevron between three mullets of six point pierced gu.
Arms display a Bishop's Galero, mitre and staff, as well as a viscount's coronet.
Leigh.c.11.168: Stamp: with '18 MAI 1840'(?), on verso of t.p.
Leigh.c.12.5: Bookplate: Coronet and Monogram
Leigh.d.11.105: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial Quarterings: 1) Gu, a stork passant, 2 & 3) Or, three pales azure, a chief of the second with ducal coronet, 4) Gu, a tassel [?], on an escutcheon: A chinaman holding silk [?]; Viscount's Coronet
Leigh.d.11.60: Bookplate: Motto: "Virtute duce comite fortuna"; Arms: An otter [?] ducally crowned
Leigh.d.11.81: Bookplate: Patriarchal Cross and Symbols in white on black background
Leigh.d.12.1-: Bookplate: "Honi soit qui mal y pense", 'Perkins and Heath, patent hardened steel plate'
Leigh.d.12.21: Stamp: Nantes, censor's stamp (p.viii)
Leigh.d.5.322: Stamp: Toulouse, 1777 (censor's stamp)
Leigh.d.5.378-: Bookplate: Stamp with Anonymous Armorial (indecipherable) and Earl's Coronet
Leigh.d.5.565: Bookplate: Arms: Bend between two mullets, supported by two lions rampant; Crest: Marquess [?] Coronet; Below: Medal - Possibly Knight of the Order of the Bath.
Leigh.d.6.14: Bookplate: Coronet and Monogram
Leigh.d.6.143-: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial with crest
Leigh.d.6.2: Bookplate: Photograph; Artist: Benedict Photo Rue de Navarin
Leigh.d.6.31: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial on mantle: Ar, a bend gu with lion rampant in sinister chief
Leigh.d.6.89: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Ar, two bars gu; Crest: a mermaid holding in the dexter hand a mirror.
Leigh.e.6.14-: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial with motto: "Virtute egregius"
M*.8.18(B): Provenance: "Intus omne Posui boni"
MR290.d.75.10: Bookplate: 'Dieu pour nous'
N*.15.20(E): Annotation: "Aut inua aut ne noceas"
N*.7.27(C): Annotation: "Aut inua aut ne noceas"
N.14.19: Provenance: "Homo des lutum figuto"
N.4.10: Provenance: Ama ch[ristum?]
N.4.10: Provenance: "Come je trouve"
N.4.10: Provenance: Cuius vita despicitus: eius sermo contemnitus
N.4.10: Provenance: "Mortuus ut vivas, vivus moriaris" etc
N.4.10: Provenance: "Ni Dessus, Ni Dessous"
N.4.10: Provenance: "Vita Concionatoris Anima Cancionis"
Norton.a.11: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial with demi bear
Norton.b.69: Bookplate: "Caute sed certe" (shield = bend with 3 bells (?), crest = stag's head)
Norton.e.44: Bookplate: Ψυχγς κονγ
O*.3.33(C): Provenance: 'Silentum vacat periculo'
Oates.379: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Az, two ragged staffs in saltire, on an escutcheon, two swords in saltire bewteen three estoiles: Crest: A demi lion rampant holding a scythe and a battle axe.
Oates.454: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Ar, an oak tree vert, impaling: az. A knight on horseback sa; Crest: a knight on horseback sa with six pennons.
Q.9.9: Provenance: 'Gard ton honneur'
R*.5.43(F), item no. 1: Provenance: "Fata manent omnia", 1576
R.12.37, item no. 1: Provenance: Avexu κai aπεxou(?)
Rel.b.68.1: Armorial binding: Charles II or III?
Rel.c.59.2: Annotation: 'William Stuart… May… 1799' [partly obliterated]
Rel.d.50.12: Provenance: 'Sustine & abstine'
Rel.d.55.6-7: Armorial binding: Crest: Buck passant
Rel.d.56.14: Provenance: "Posteris"
Rel.e.64.8: Armorial binding: Anonymous Armorial: two bars between eight cornish choughs three, two, three, with a tower in centre; Viscount's Coronet; Text: 'Grave'
Rit.d.753.1: Armorial binding: Cambridge University, calf - blind
Rit.d.754.1: Armorial binding: Cambridge University, calf - blind
S446.d.71.1: Bookplate: El Moro, A.D. 424
S450.d.76.1: Bookplate: "Deo et regi", crest with knight holding spear
S520.d.84.1: Bookplate: 'Bibl. D. P. Trunc.'
S530.d.70.1: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial
S721.d.83.55: Bookplate: 'In thy light shall we see light. Psalm 36.9', with an open bible and dove
S727.d.74.29: Bookplate: Unknown; Arms: A chevron between three pelicans vulning themselves, impaling: a cross between four fleur de lis; Motto: 'Maris Alumnus'
S740.d.81.8: Bookplate: Anonymous Armorial: Az. a [?], on a chief or an eagle displayed, Viscount's Coronet
Sel.3.21: Provenance: 'In vertitate victoria', with signatius(?)
SSS.55.6: Bookplate: Constantia et Labore
Syn.2.61.1: Armorial binding: Cambridge University, purple morocco - gold
Syn.3.54.1: Provenance: 'Antonii Agh…'
Syn.4.59.1: Armorial binding: 1599 (vol 1)
Syn.6.58.8: Provenance: ( ) Joshua, Gonville & Caius College, 17--
No such name recorded at Caius.
Syn.7.82.212-215: Bookplate: "Esse quam videri" (on belt, enclosing cipher, no crest)
Syn.8.53.26: Provenance: 'Spes mea in deo'
Syn.8.53.26: Provenance: "Veritas justitie norma"
Syn.8.54.47: Provenance: 'Joy pour devoir'
Syn.8.57.8: Annotation: "Ad ardua tandem"
Syn.8.58.162: Provenance: "Nulli certa domus"
Syn.8.58.5: Provenance: "Homo des lutum figuto" [printed]
Syn.8.61.129: Armorial binding: England (blind tooling)
Syn.8.73.11: Bookplate: 'Malgré là envie'
U*.8.75(G): Provenance: Heble…
U*.8.75(G): Provenance: Heble…
Ven.8.79.2: Armorial binding: cal - silver, with "Bene Meritis" (school prize?)
W.4.56: Provenance: "Non est mortale quod opto"
White.b.45: Bookplate: 'Bibl. S. PVD, VRB'
White.c.162: Bookplate: "Fideliter"
X.6.56: Armorial binding: Viscount's Coronet
Yorke.d.72: Bookplate: chevron between three mullets pierced.
Young.268: Annotation: 'MMS 1795'
Z.9.67: Provenance: Έκτών Μαχίου
Zz.17.19, item no. 3: Provenance: "Virescit vulnere virtus" (fin)
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