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№108 Knight Crest Canvas Tote Bag · Live Your Best Knight · Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia

№108 Knight Crest Canvas Tote Bag · Live Your Best Knight · Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia

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The Knight No. 108 crest on a zippered 12 oz cotton canvas day bag with a front pocket and long handles, for anyone who keeps their word, holds their line and does not fold when it gets hard. On it, the No. 108 crest: the talbot hound, the bridle and the triquetra on a shield under the Latin banner, drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner.

The zippered tote is the day bag: 12 oz canvas, a zip top so nothing falls out on the train, a front pocket for the phone and keys. It is the one for the commute, the weekend and the carry-on that is not quite a carry-on.

Temperantia, Fiducia, Perseverantia: temperance, trust, perseverance. Three Latin nouns that did not begin together but ended together, carried into the late medieval period by bestiaries, monastic rules and the hard practice of men who had to keep faith on long roads. Read the banner bottom to top and you have the medieval blueprint of how a soul is built. Trust is the seed. Perseverance is the holding. Temperance is the hand on the rein.

Each word has its emblem on the shield. The talbot hound at the top stands for fidelity, drawn from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae of about 625 and repeated in the Aberdeen Bestiary around 1200. The bridle at the heart is heraldry's sign of temperance, codified in Ripa's Iconologia of 1593. The triquetra at the foot, one endless line in three arcs, appears in the Book of Kells around 800 and stood for the perseverance Renaissance emblem books captioned nunquam frangitur, never broken. The device is drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner.

A zippered tote in 12 oz all-cotton canvas, 18 by 14 by 4.5 inches, with a front zip pocket and long handles, offered in natural or with colored trim. Undyed cotton shows natural flecks. Machine wash cold, adding a little soap to the washer first.


QUICK FACTS — THE KNIGHT NO. 108 CREST ZIPPERED CANVAS TOTE

Series: Knight No. 108

Art: The No. 108 crest: the talbot hound, the bridle and the triquetra on a shield under the Latin banner, drawn in the high Burgundian engraving manner

Blank: zippered 12 oz all-cotton canvas tote, 18 x 14 x 4.5 in, front zip pocket, long handles

Care: machine wash cold

Colors: 2 offered

Sizes: 15" x 16"

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The triquetra at the foot of the shield is older than the other two emblems by several centuries. It appears in the marginalia of the Book of Kells around 800, in the carved stone crosses of Iona and Lindisfarne, and on the eleventh-century Funbo Runestones in Sweden. Originally a Celtic and Norse design motif from roughly 400 to 700, it was absorbed by Insular Christian art as a symbol of the Trinity — three persons, one substance, one unbroken loop. The geometry made the argument for perseverance: an endless line, three arcs returning to themselves with no beginning or end. Renaissance emblem books captioned interlaced devices of this kind nunquam frangitur, meaning never broken. When the heraldic tradition needed a symbol for the active form of constancy, the triquetra was already waiting, eight centuries old, ready for the work.

The bridle and bit at the heart of the shield is the canonical emblem of temperance. The image came from Aristotle's metaphor of reason as charioteer governing the horse of appetite, descended through Cicero's De Officiis of 44 B.C. and adopted into Christian moral theology by Aquinas. Giotto painted Temperantia on the wall of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua in about 1305 with a bridle at her mouth and a sword bound into its scabbard. Cesare Ripa codified the iconography in his Iconologia of 1593, setting the bridle in Temperance's hand. Every educated medieval and Renaissance viewer would have read a bridle on a shield as Temperantia on sight. The vocabulary was that settled.

Why the Three Together

Two virtues can be balanced; three must be ordered. The order tells you what the bearer believes about how a soul is built. This shield believes the soul is built from the ground up — trust first because nothing is built without it, perseverance second because trust without persistence is a flicker, and temperance last because the other two need a governor or they consume themselves. It is not the order of the schoolroom. It is the order of the road, the order a man arrives at after he has been knocked off a horse a few times and chosen to remount.

Live Your Best Knight series crest logo featuring medieval heraldic shield with hound, bridle, and triquetra — Latin virtues motto Temperantia Fiducia Perseverantia