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Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Year: 1878 (1870s) Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval Publisher: London : Bickers and Son Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s, bothFrench and foreign, which were in no way connected with the kings of thethird French race. It was only some of these families which had obtainedthe privilege of placing the fleur-de-lis upon their escutcheon, as a recompensefor services rendered to the Crown. Thus Charles VII., when he ennobled HERALDIC SCIEXCE. the brothers of Joan of Arc, gave them not only the new name of Du Lvs,■\vhich they assumed after their sister, but also an azure escutcheon, chargedwith a pointed sword, with two fleius-de-lis or, dexter and sinister (Fig. 251).After having made use of the principal emblems furnished by nature iuthe composition of aimorial bearings, heraldic science borrowed from thework of human hands, or from the fanciful conceptions of the human mind.Thus certain families took for theii escutcheon instrimients of music, such ashai-ps, guitars, or huntiag-homs, and the ordinary utensils of domestic hfe,such as pots, di-inking-glasses, knives, miU-stones, candlesticks, &c. Other Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 251.-—Family of Joan of Arc, alias Du Lvs.—A Sword argent in pale, tlie point supporting aCrown or, and teing flanked with two Fleurs-de-lis, with the Motto, Consilio tirmatei Dei.This Coat-of-arms was composed by Charles XW. himself, in 1429. families, having more ambitious ideas, placed in their aims imagiaaryanimals, snch as the phcenis, the unicorn, harpies, and so forth. It is worthy of remark that many aims were emblematic ; that is to say,people charged them with certaia common objects which happened to presentan analogy with their family name (Fig. 252). For instance, the Bouesseauxhad three hitsheh (boisseaus) azure; the Chabots, three chahots (a river-fish) ; the Maillys, three maillets (malets) sinople; the Du Palmiers, threejxdins or; the Rethels, three raieaux (ratres) or; the Crequys, a crequier(cherry-tree) gules; the Begassoux, three heads of the 6era*S(? (woodcock) or;the Auchats, a chat (cat) startled, argent; the Herices, thi-ee herissons (hedge- HERALDIC S Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.