EditorialAn emblematical miniature showing it is necessary to know how to handle things, 'to rub people up the right way'. This is based on the moral satire 'Roman de Fauvel' of Gervais Du Bus, where those who curry a fauveau are flatterers and opportunists. Th...
EditorialA rural scene. Below, the poem 'Rura Mihi et Silentium'. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published. [In verse.]. London : Wa: Dight, 16...
EditorialIllustration of an elaborate design for tapestries for king Louis XIV of France. Theme The Four Seasons. . Devises pour les tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons de l'anneé. France, Central (Paris). André Fe...
EditorialAn Apple iPhone plugged into a Lightning connector cable is used to stream a church service in Chapel Hill, N.C., March 15, 2020. (Eamon Queeney/The New York Times)
EditorialEmblematical miniature based on a passage from 'Livre du cueur d'amours espris' by René I d'Anjou. Bonne Acceuil [Good Welcome] and Courtoise Manière [Courteous Manner] have slung their net between two trees to catch and tame overlight, flickle, flyi...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature showing it is necessary to know how to handle things, 'to rub people up the right way'. This is based on the moral satire 'Roman de Fauvel' of Gervais Du Bus, where those who curry a fauveau are flatterers and opportunists. Th...
EditorialEmblematical miniature of two metalworkers, suggesting that each person acts in his own way, and according to his own rules. One man verifies that his arrows are perfectly straight, while the other takes care to forge his scythes with a proper curve. T...
EditorialA table with a burning candle. . Petit Livre d'Amour ( Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour ); (A collection of love poems and ‘énigmes’.). c 1500- c 1505. Source: Stowe 955, f.8.
EditorialEmblematical miniature reflecting on the idea that on life's stage, everyone must don a mask and pretend to be the opposite of the person they really are. The two characters are portrayed sketching their opposite partner. The image plays upon the polys...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature illustrating the thoughtless, absurd, and familiar act of the person who chops or saws off the branch upon which he is seated. Sala critiicises the man's lack of foresight.The scene illustrates a love poem dedicated by Pierre ...
EditorialA man holding a staff and crucifix. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published [In verse]. Wa: Dight: London, 1612. Source: C.38.f.28 pa...
EditorialLiAn emblematical miniature illustrating the proverb 'you shouldn't limp in front of a lame person'.The scene contrasts a lame man leaning on his crutch with a richly dressed figure holding a bell. It is also a pun on the twin meanings of 'cloche' ['li...
EditorialPortrait of the author, Pierre Sala. Pierre Sala (1457–1529), an antiquary and valet de chambre of Louis XII. . Petit Livre d'Amour ( Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour ); (A collection of love poems and ‘énigmes’.). c 1500- c 1505. Source: Stowe 9...
EditorialEmblematical miniature based on a passage from 'Livre du cueur d'amours espris' by René I d'Anjou. Bonne Acceuil [Good Welcome] and Courtoise Manière [Courteous Manner] have slung their net between two trees to catch and tame overlight, flickle, flyi...
EditorialEmblematical miniature portrays the lover placing his heart inside a marguerite flower in the middle of a bed of pansies, set in wooded countryside. The architectural landscape in the background is perhaps an allusion to Lyons with its twin hills. Illu...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature set in a garden hedged with red and white roses. The lover, his eyes blindfolded, is trying to catch one of the ladies who, far from slipping away, seems to be waiting for him. Another lady is trying to mislead him by tapping ...
EditorialA rural scene. Below, the poem 'Rura Mihi et Silentium'. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published. [In verse.]. London : Wa: Dight, 16...
EditorialText page with mirror writing. Petit Livre d'Amour ( Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour ); (A collection of love poems and ‘énigmes’.). c 1500- c 1505. Source: Stowe 955, f.16v. Language: French and Italian.
EditorialElizabeth I. Bazili:logia, a Booke of Kings; beeing the true an. [London,] 1618. Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Queen of England and Ireland from 1558. Portrait. Image taken from Bazili:logia, a Booke of Kings; beeing the true and likely Effigies of all our...
EditorialA rhinoceros clad in armour. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa’s of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published. [In verse.]. Wa: Dight: London, 1612. Source: C.38.f.28, page...
EditorialA crocodile stealthily approaching a beehive. Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Devises, furnished and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa’s of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized and published. [In verse.]. Wa: Dight: London, 1612. Source...
EditorialAn emblematical miniature illustrating the proverb 'trampling on one man to help another', or in offering to help one person, you cause harm to another. Set in a landscape, an obliging man is carrying the person he wishes to help, and tramples on the b...
EditorialA man and a woman playing bagpipes (Robin and Marion). . Petit Livre d'Amour ( Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour ); (A collection of love poems and ‘énigmes’.). c 1500- c 1505. Source: Stowe 955, f.9.
EditorialAn emblematical miniature showing that the lover's choice should be guided by spontaneous liking, rather than by a desire for wealth. The scene shows a child seated on a table, between two dishes; one is full of gold coins, and the other cherries. He c...
EditorialIllustration of an elaborate design for tapestries for king Louis XIV of France. Theme The Four Seasons. . Devises pour les tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons de l'anneé. France, Central (Paris). André Fe...
EditorialSecond Livre de Troph?s Culs de Lampes et Devises: Title Page. Dated: c. 1730. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 x 12.9 cm (8 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.). Medium: engraving on laid paper.
EditorialSecond Livre de Troph?s Culs de Lampes et Devises: Title Page. Dated: c. 1730. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.8 x 12.9 cm (8 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.). Medium: engraving on laid paper.