A skeleton and a stork each holding a cloth with a baby at center. A banner above, held up by two caducei, reads Non est Vivere, sed Valere, uta. Beneath the baby is Aesculapius standing on a stack of books.
A pile of books forming a frame around a scroll featuring a shield party per fess with an or field and a lion rampant counter charged. At the helm, upon a torse is a demi lion rampant. The shield is surrounded by a long, leafy vine. Below, on the bottom curl, is the motto Veritas Vincet. Further above the frame of books is a violin, a recorder, a fife, and some sheet music. Enclosed card reads: This is the plate of FRANCIS ORPEN, A. B. reworked. Note the musical instruments above books.
Subject (Name):
Orpen, Francis H. S.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Books, Lion, Lions, Physicians, and Shields
Above the title text are three books; two upright, and one in the middle, lying flat. Upon the middle book is a branch of oak leaves and acorns. Behind the books is a large oval-shaped wall hanging—a wreath of leaves surrounds this, and a large caduceus is featured within.
Subject (Name):
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, Sharp, Ena, and Sharp, Jacob, 1893-
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Medical libraries, Physicians, and Seal
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A landscape scene with a satyr reading beneath a single tree. The background consists of rolling hills and a large cloud in the sky. A banner at the bottom of the image reads "On bokes for to Rede I me Delyte" --Chaucer.
Subject (Name):
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 and Yale School of Medicine
Lambert, Alexander Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
20th century
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Yale insignia, including the phrase Lux et Veritas, at top center of a vertical rectangle surrounded by a decorative border. Beneath this reads "Gift of Dr. Lambert's nephews — Dr. Adrian Lambert B.A. 1930; Dr. John T. Lambert B.A. 1935; Dr. Samuel W. Lambert Jr. B.A. 1919; Dr. Dickinson W. Richards Jr. B.A. 1917." This bookplate is probably from the period when medical books were kept in a collection at Sterling Memorial Library, before the Yale Medical Library was built. Alexander Lambert received his BA from Yale in 1884, his Ph.B. from Yale in 1885, and his M.D. from Columbia in 1888.
Subject (Name):
Lambert, Adrian, Lambert, Alexander, 1861-1939, Lambert, John T., Lambert, Samuel W., and Richards, Dickinson W., Jr.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Physicians, Shields, Yale Medical Library, and Yale University. School of Medicine
A shelf of books with a candle. Above the shelf, in quotes is written "Alere Flammam". Beneath the shelf is a line marked "No.", and at the bottom of the bookplate is a line marked "Baltimore", and "/18".
A shield with a gules chief and three dove upon it. Beneath the field paly or and azure. At center is a smaller shield, with an ermine fretty and a sable pale with three doves upon it. Surrounding the shield is elaborate leafing, in addition to flowers and grasses. At the helm, atop a torse, is a fox with an ermine spot at the end of its tail. Further below the shield, amongst the title text, are several books—both opened and closed.
A figure dressed in a black coat and a black fedora adorned with fishing lures holds fishing rod in the right hand, and a fish still attached to the line in the left. The image is flanked by a hanging fish, with a book in the lower right-hand corner with the motto Omnia Ab Libris Expiscor.