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Book Clasp. Застёжка. Книги встречаются в гербах, как открытые (герб оксфордского университета), так и закрытые (университет в Кембридже и Company of Stationers). Их положение, застёжки или печати и т.п. должны быть указаны.
- «Azure, on an open book proper, having on the dexter side seven seals or[Rev. V. 1], between three ducal coronets of the last the words DOMINVS ILLVMINATIO MEA. (PS. xxvii. 1.)» – UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD .
- «Argent, three books closed gules, leaved, clasped, and garnished or» – PAYNTER, Norfolk.
- «Gules, a clasped book upon between three buck's heads erased or» – Seal of John BUCKNER .
Среди книг наиболее часто по названию встречается Библия.
- «Vert, in chief, the holy Bible expanded proper, in base a sand-glass running argent» – JOASS, Scotland.
- «Argent, on a fesse gules, three Bibles of the second garnished or, a falcon volant between two suns of the last» – SLAMBERG.
- «Argent, an eagle displayed double-headed sable, armed gules, on a chief azure a book of the Holy Scriptures, open proper, stringed or» – W. MORGAN, Bp. of Llandaff, 1549.
- «Azure, on a chevron or between three Bibles fessewise, clasp downwards gules, garnished and leaved of the second, an eagle rising proper enclosed by two red roses seeded or barbed vert; from the chief a demi-circle of glory edged with clouds proper, therein a dove displayed and nimbed argent» – Company of STATIONERS, London[Incorporated 1556].
- «Argent, a chevron azure between three pheons gules; on a chief of the second an open Holy Bible proper edged and sealed or, inscribed, Proverbs, cap. xxii. ver. 6, enclosed by two crosses flory of the last» – JOHNSON.
The Music, or Song-book, Музыкальная или песенная книга, встречается у приходских клерков Лондона, продолговатой формы, похожа на книгу на иллюстрации на полях. Также встречается нотный стан Musical lines, состоящий из пяти параллельных линий, тянущихся через щит горизонтально.
- «Azure, a fleur-de-lis or; on a chief gules a leopard's head between two song-books(shut) of the second, stringed vert» – Company of PARISH CLERKS, [Inc. 1233, arms granted 1582.]
- «Azure, on a fesse argent 5 musical lines sable charged with a rose gules, and two escallops of the third in chief .... &c.» – TETLOW, Lancaster. [Arms granted, 1760.]
- «Argent, two bars wavy azure, on a chief of the second an open music-book or between two swords in saltire of the first hilted and pommelled of the third» – THE ACADEMY OF THE MUSES, London.
Книги встречаются также в гербах Dean и Chapter of Raphoe; колледж of S.Mary в Manchester в Lancaster; Company of Scriveners, London; и в фамилиях of Conroy, co. Montgomery; Joass, Шотландия; Grant; Smith, Эдинбург; Evants, Норвегия; B. Porteous, епископа. of Chester, 1777; Fardell, co. Lincoln, и многих других.
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