Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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l, with the Motto, Eogo pro teAnna (Anne, I pray for thee), and upon the other side a Lion rampant, with these words, inallusion to the ermine of Brittany: Libera eam de ore leonis (Deliver it from the jawsof the lion).—Miniature from the Funerailles dAnne de Bretagne.—Manuscript of theSixteenth Century.—In the Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. terious allusion. For instance, Antoine de Croy, Souvenance ; Jean dela Tremoille, Ne moubliez! Johann Schenk, in Germany, Plutotrompre que flechir; Philip of Burgvmdy, after his marriage withIsabella of Portugal, Autre nauray, an alteration of the amorousmotto, Autre naviray dame Isabeau, tant que vivray. The proud mottoesof the Rohans and the Coucys are very well known: Roi ne puis, due nedaigne, Rohan siiis ; Je ne suis roy, ne due, ne comte aussi, je suis le sire deConey. Sometimes the mottoes were merely represented by mute emblems,such as the AVIiite Rose of the house of York, the Red Rose of Lancaster HERALDIC SCIENCE 319
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Fig. 263.—Jean Le Feron, a Irarncd Fiencli heraldic Scholar (1504—lo70), presents one of liiaWorks to King Henry II.—Slinialure from the Blason dArnioiries, hy Jehan Le Feron.—Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century, No. 795.—In the Arsenal Library, Paris. (Fig. 255), the Thistle of Bourbdii, and iLe iluskct of 15urguiuly; andsometimes they comprised both emblems and in.scri2Jtions, as in Itah, where 320 HERALDIC SCIENCE. Camillo Pallavicini, member of an ancient Milanese family, bore a flower, thestem of wbicb was being nibbled by a turtle, witb the Italian inscription, Ogni

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