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Hum… I agree with Mr Franklin secondary meaning. LIBRIS is a dative plural, meaning a cause or a way that make a person unique. In this case, it would be his books.

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I believe it would mean, "man is the only book." Can anyone confirm this?

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Franklin, Jonathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I think ‘homo’ has the sense of ‘humans’, ‘human beings’, so it means that humans alone have books (not the rest of the animal kingdom). But there is probably also a secondary meaning, that any particular individual’s book collection is a window onto his or her unique character.

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“unicus” modifies “homo”, not (as in “homo unius libri”, “man of one book”) “libris”. And “libris” is dative or ablative plural, whether masculine, as in “books” (liber), or feminine, as in “scales” (libra). Beyond that I’m not yet sure. “A man singular in/with respect to [his] books”? Something like that might well have been intended as a play on the other. But I’m a bit rusty when it comes to the ablative (http://dcc.dickinson.edu/allen-greenough/Chapters/Chapter-398.html) not governed by a preposition. Is this John Davis Barnett?

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Hello, I am working on a digital collection of bookplates from the Seattle Art Museum libraries, and was wondering if anyone can help me on a question of Latin translation.

The bookplate of J. Davis Barnett bears the saying of Homo unicus libris. I believe this is a play on the phrase homo unius libri, perhaps meaning man of unique books, or man of only books, or maybe he just erred. If anyone has any advice, I would be grateful to hear it.

Thank you,

Joel Irving

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