Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy
post-1943 / Creator Unknown
Collection: The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
A heraldic-style institutional bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a line border, featuring the coat-of-arms of Phillips Exeter Academy, which bears a lion rampant and is topped with a seated lion, and surrounded by elaborate mantling. Latin script above and below reads “Pia mente studeatur. In usum Academia Phillipsa Exoniensis,” which loosely translates to Let him study with a pious mind in the use of the Academy of Phillips Exeter.” At the bottom is the text "The Roosevelt Fund, For Mathematics and Navigation, given by George E. Roosevelt, Father of Julian K. Roosevelt, ’43."
~ “Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed December 24, 2024, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/1679.
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Title
Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy
Subject
Bookplates
Description
A heraldic-style institutional bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a line border, featuring the coat-of-arms of Phillips Exeter Academy, which bears a lion rampant and is topped with a seated lion, and surrounded by elaborate mantling. Latin script above and below reads “Pia mente studeatur. In usum Academia Phillipsa Exoniensis,” which loosely translates to Let him study with a pious mind in the use of the Academy of Phillips Exeter.” At the bottom is the text "The Roosevelt Fund, For Mathematics and Navigation, given by George E. Roosevelt, Father of Julian K. Roosevelt, ’43."
Source
The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
Publisher
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
post-1943
Contributor
Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
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Format
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
eng
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PPL-MS: 1925.1.191
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
5 and ¼”H x 3 and ½”W