Devices (symbols).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Generally, representations, designs, or mottoes, or combinations of these, used to signify an individual, a group, or sometimes a commercial concern, and usually intended to convey a sense of lineage or quality. For devices that are symbol- or picture based, designed to identify at a glance a product, company, or organization, and often used as trademarks, see ""logos""For devices that specifically identify a person or object as belonging to a group or organization, sometimes denoting rank or office, see ""insignia."".
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated copies of printers' devices made by George Gatheral, Birmingham, and presented by him to Charles Johnston in 1919., [?1919.]
File
Identifier: MS.20763
Commonplace-book, containing moral discourses, maxims, 'devices', and verse, including hymns and 'bouts-rimés', chiefly in French, but also in Latin and German., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1882
Scope and Contents
Some pieces are described as being 'par moi-même'; others are copied from other authors. The sentiments are Protestant. Several of the poems are in honour of persons belonging to the reigning houses of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Gotha, and Brandenburg; the works from which extracts are given include those of Madam and Mademoiselle Deshoulières, Tavernier, and Gregorio Leti. From these references, the manuscript seems to have been written at the end of the seventeenth century. The first leaf of the...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Correspondence and papers of Charles S S Johnston., 1889-1921.
File
Identifier: MS.20762
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.7
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Epitome Codicis Sconensis ... ex libro M.S. Magni Mackculloche` (folio 1). Material in Latin and English, taken from the `Scotichronicon` for 1057 to 1436, with a supplement (folio 34) for 1199-1263. This was the basis of the early part of Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland’. ‘The Scottish historical library’, pages 92-93, refers to this manuscript.(ii) Extracts from ‘Scotorum historiae’ by Hector Boece (folio 39)....
Dates:
1440-1642.