Woodcut device of Denys Roce
Woodcut device (94 x 69 mm.) of Denys Roce, depicting his arms on a shield, supported by two griffins, hanging from a rose tree with a dog lying at its foot and Roce's monogram "DR" in the background, the whole surrounded by the words ALAVENTVRE TOVT VIENT APONIT QVI PEVT ATENDRE DENIS ROCE (the S in Denis reversed). "[T]hird of Roce's four devices ... The coat of arms may be the legitimate arms of the printer, who had come to France from Scotland. The dogs in the device denote alertness and the scallop shell is the emblem of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James of Campostella [sic]. The rose tree is, of course, a pun on Roce's name."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 31. Printed in an incunable edition of St. Augustine's De virtute psalmorum (Paris : Etienne Jehannot for Denis Roce, between 26 June 1500 and 29 May 1501; ISTC ia01352000).
Established heading: Roce, Denys, active 1490-1517
Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-1352
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Woodcut device of Denys Roce
Woodcut device (94 x 69 mm.) of Denys Roce, depicting his arms on a shield, supported by two griffins, hanging from a rose tree with a dog lying at its foot and Roce's monogram "DR" in the background, the whole surrounded by the words ALAVENTVRE TOVT VIENT APONIT QVI PEVT ATENDRE DENIS ROCE (the S in Denis reversed). "[T]hird of Roce's four devices ... The coat of arms may be the legitimate arms of the printer, who had come to France from Scotland. The dogs in the device denote alertness and the scallop shell is the emblem of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James of Campostella [sic]. The rose tree is, of course, a pun on Roce's name."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 31. Printed in an incunable edition of St. Augustine's De virtute psalmorum (Paris : Etienne Jehannot for Denis Roce, between 26 June 1500 and 29 May 1501; ISTC ia01352000).
Established heading: Roce, Denys, active 1490-1517
Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-1352
Penn Libraries catalog record