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The note records the heraldic description of the arms and references the source from which the bookplate was removed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text reads in part:\u003cbr\u003e“Ex-libris du Prieuré de Saint-Lo, à Rouen…\u003cbr\u003eCet ex-libris a été enlevé sur un exemplaire des ‘Conquestes et trophées des Normands’… Rouen, 1658, in-fol.\u003cbr\u003eCanal, Armorial des Villes et Corporations de Normandie, pages 312 et 313.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn plain English:\u003cbr\u003e“Bookplate of the Priory of Saint-Lô in Rouen, whose arms are: gold field with a red leopard and a blue chief charged with three gold fleur-de-lis…”\u003cbr\u003e“This bookplate was removed from a copy of Conquestes et trophées des Normands, Rouen, 1658 (folio). 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