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An open book with a pen, marking a scholar, clerk or writer.
Also known as: Book and pen on a grave, Scholar's book, Quill and book
A book with a quill or pen. Marks a scholar, teacher, clerk or clergyman — but the book alone is one of the least reliable motifs in the vocabulary, because an open book on a monument is far more often a Bible than a career.
An open book shown with a quill, pen or inkwell, marking a scholar, schoolmaster, clerk, writer or clergyman.
Contexts: History
The pen is what makes the reading occupational. A book on its own is among the least reliable motifs in this vocabulary, because an open book on a monument is far more often a Bible than a statement about a career.
Reading a plain open book as evidence of a literary occupation is a common and usually unfounded inference.
A book lying open with both rectangular pages showing, a feather quill resting across it or standing in a small pot beside it.
An open book alone is usually scriptural; with a pen it becomes occupational.