Ex librii (libris-es?)

[Deimos]

Tabula intra librum? Tabula intra librae?  I'm just butchering this now 

Out of politeness, if not pity, we will now avert our eyes....

[J. Wilhelm]

Tabula intra librum? Tabula intra librae?  I'm just butchering this now 

Out of politeness, if not pity, we will now avert our eyes....

Tough crowd... I shall find an erudite fit to match your skills..

[Deimos]

As much as it annoys me, my "skills" failed Caledonian....

[Caledonian]

i am not let down, I'm just observing the discussion and deciding i'll just call them "stamps" and use the text as i see other heraldic artists do

[Banfili]

Just to add to the general confusion, the latin for book is 'liber', for library it is 'bibliotheca', so, 'something belonging to the library of' would be 'quae sunt in bibliothecam'

'ex libris' means 'from books', so what an 'ex libris' bookplate is saying is 'from the books of ....'*, not 'from the library of'.

So, 'from the library of' would be 'et ex bibliotheca', and 'a book from the library of' is 'et ex bibliotheca liber'.

There ya go! Even a simple bookplate can get complicated!

(* also relates to information from books, which is 'informationes ex libris')

[Deimos]

Or just "ex bibliotheca" ...."from the library [of name]"

If you name happens to be a Romance language name or derived from one, you put that on the bookplate in Latin as well....in the genitive (i.e., possessive) case.

My real name is Marie...the "romance language" version is Maria (Spanish) so my bookplates read Ex Libris Mariae (Mariae being the genitive case of Maria)...literally "From the books of Maria"  
Using Bibliotheca it would be "Ex Bibliotheca Mariae"  

The male version "Mario" (Latin Marius) would be Ex Libris / Bibliotheca Marii...

[Caledonian]

The language stuff is confusing
I'll stick to learning Gaelic and making art

[Deimos]

Betting I would have a much more difficult time learning Gaelic than I ever did learning Latin