JPD
2016-03-01 00:36:18 UTC
I recently learned of a medieval illustrated book commissioned by Guy Le Bouteillier, an ancestor of Catherine de Baillon, a seventeenth century immigrant to New France. I need some help understanding a motto that appears repeatedly in this book.
The moto is "Nulle que vous." It is obviously in French, but my efforts to translate it leads to "nothing that you" which makes little sense. What would this moto mean? I suspect it is a heraldic motto which are occasionally truncated (I suspect to fit better on a seal). Any idea of a proper translation for this motto.
To understand the context of the motto and to learn more about the illustrated book, point your browser to http://www.mesqui.net/Articles_fortif/pdf/Guy-le-Bouteillier-et-La-Roche-Guyon.pdf.
The story of this book, Chastel de labour, with an English introduction and some black and white facsimiles of the illustrations can be downloaded at https://archive.org/details/lelivreduchastel00bruy.
The authors of these works are not really heraldists and I think to understand all the illustrations in this book it is necessary to think like a heraldist. For example, I suspect the repeated symbol of a drawbridge surrounded by towers might be Guy Le Bouteillier's crest. I suspect there are other heraldry clues in this work other than the Le Bouteillier arms found on several of the pages. Those arms are: "d'hermines à une fleur de lys de gueules."
Any insights on the motto and other symbols in this book I would welcome.
Thank you.
The moto is "Nulle que vous." It is obviously in French, but my efforts to translate it leads to "nothing that you" which makes little sense. What would this moto mean? I suspect it is a heraldic motto which are occasionally truncated (I suspect to fit better on a seal). Any idea of a proper translation for this motto.
To understand the context of the motto and to learn more about the illustrated book, point your browser to http://www.mesqui.net/Articles_fortif/pdf/Guy-le-Bouteillier-et-La-Roche-Guyon.pdf.
The story of this book, Chastel de labour, with an English introduction and some black and white facsimiles of the illustrations can be downloaded at https://archive.org/details/lelivreduchastel00bruy.
The authors of these works are not really heraldists and I think to understand all the illustrations in this book it is necessary to think like a heraldist. For example, I suspect the repeated symbol of a drawbridge surrounded by towers might be Guy Le Bouteillier's crest. I suspect there are other heraldry clues in this work other than the Le Bouteillier arms found on several of the pages. Those arms are: "d'hermines à une fleur de lys de gueules."
Any insights on the motto and other symbols in this book I would welcome.
Thank you.