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The Library of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Registration number 20061022T
This certifies that the heraldic arms of The Library of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame are registered as an original design and are described by the blazon below
Arms: Azure, on a mullet of eight points Argent, a roundel of the First charged with a sun-in-splendour Or, the whole within a Bordure of Notre Dame, viz. Argent, charged at the corners with three open books of the Last, bound and edged of the First, bearing respectively the words VITA, DULCEDO, and SPES in letters Sable, and between the books three mullet of six points of the First.
Crest: On a HELM suitable to a non-commercial private corporation in the United States of America, over a LAMBREQUIN of the livery colours Azure doubled party of Or and Argent, and issuant of a TORSE of the academic colours Argent and Azure, a mullet of eight points as in the arms, set between a pair of arms embowed proper, the dexter male and the sinister female, both habited Azure, doubled Argent, together holding an open book of the Last, bound and edged Or, bearing the words VITA DULCEDO SPES in letters Sable.
Motto: In medio optimum querimus
Badge: On a sun-in-splendour Or a roundel Azure, charged with the letters m:i of the First, ensigned by the BONNET of the Director of an Institute granting degrees in Arts and Philosophy, viz. a doctoral bonnet Sable, its brim edged with a narrow band of gold lace, curled on the upper edge, encircled by a torse in the academic colours Argent and Azure, and charged with a shield of the arms of the University, Proper.
Source
From the site http://www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/achievement.shtml
Registered by
Michael Swanson
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