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| Keywords: Cosmitor Medicus triplex - Upper cover (c46k6).jpg Style Armorial Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Red exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind; Cover Material Calf Unidentified arms 3 birds According to John Morris's English Armorial; The principal feature of the books in the collection is the heavy preponderance of medical works The birds resemble very much Gesner's pigeons and as his work was the principal source for avian iconography in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century it seems probable that the birds are doves or pigeons There are unfortunately a number of families that bear three doves Papworth gives Magill and Rathbone Argent three doves azure; Crule Azure three doves argent and Azure three doves or; Hodby Azure three doves proper; Ayer Gules three doves close argent; Ayer and Hodby Gules three doves proper; Columbell and Tunsted Sable three doves argent The best real hope of hitting on the owner of this library must depend on some mark of identification being found in the books All that we can be sure of is that we have to do with a medical library put together about the year 1623 and which was presumably dispersed before about 1645 the approximate date of the death of Edward Gwynn whose name is at least twice found added round this stamp H J B Clements 'Armorial bookstamps and their owners ' The Library 4s xx 134 1939 W A Jackson 'Edward Gwynn' The Library 4s xv 92 96 1934 D Macarthur 'Three Cornish choughs an armorial bookstamp problem' The Library World liii 279 280 1951 object history Text 1621; Venice; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding England place of discovery To research armorials see British Armorial Bindings Database sponsored jointly by the Bibliographical Society and the University of Toronto http //armorial library utoronto ca British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000013520 ImageId ImageId 46365 Copyright BL Cosmitor Medicus triplex Uploaded with GWToolset Cosmitor Medicus triplex - Upper cover c46k6 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/15411_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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