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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.