Théâtre D'amour: complete reprint of the coloured Emblemata amatoria of 1620 by Carsten-Peter WarnckeThis volume of late 16th and early 17th century love emblems--including mythological, allegorical, and even erotic prints--was amassed around 1620 by an unknown lover. These 143 folios are reproduced in their original size (25.3 x 18.5 cm), and are joined by an Introduction and accompanying descriptions by the author.
Publication Date: 2004
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco ColonnaThe most famous book of the Renaissance is now triumphantly translated into English by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all its wayward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to the modern reader.
Speaking pictures : English emblem books and Renaissance culture by Michael BathThis study aims to provide an introduction to the major emblem books of the 16th and 17th centuries, and to the contexts in which they flourished. Five chapters are devoted to critical readings of particular emblem books, while the remaining four are mainly contextual.
Deviceful Settings by Michael Bath; Daniel S. RussellThis volume, containing papers from the Third International Emblem Conference held in Pittsburgh in 1993, focuses on the 17th-century emblem in England. It focuses on the contexts within which emblems were used, rather than on the emblem books themselves.
Emblemata Sacra: emblem books from the Maurits Sabbe Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven by Ralph Dekoninck; Francis A. Drexel Library (Philadelphia (Contribution by)"This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp's previously unpublished study of La vie symbolique du bienheureux Francois de Sales (1664) of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnes Guiderdoni-Brusle that updates and amplifies Stopp's work, and a facsimile of Gambart's emblem book. This book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and written for the Sisters of the Visitation monastery of Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris, where Gambart, a Vincentian priest, served as chaplain for over thirty years. It was published in preparation for Francis's canonization in 1665." "Stopp's study offers an English translation of the key observations made by Gambart about each of the fifty-two emblems, while the facsimile makes available Gambarts original French text. Moreover, the facsimile is reproduced in color in order to convey the tonal richness of the original emblems."--BOOK JACKET.
Emblem Books at the University of Illinois: a bibliographic catalogue by Thomas McGeary"A tribute to Emeritus Professor of German Languages and Literatures Henri Stegemeier"--5th prelim. p.
"The catalogue lists emblem books and related items in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"--Preface.
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Sources of an alchemical book of emblems. by H. M. E. de JongMichael Maier was a 17th-century alchemist and physician to the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Between 1614 and his death in 1622, Maier published a number of alchemical works, of which Atalanta Fugiens was undoubtedly the richest and most important. First published in 1617, it is one of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right. Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning. In the new publication of this important 17th-century work, Dr. H. M. E. de Jong translates the mottos and epigrams of the original 50 emblems and provides a summary of both Maier's exposition and a commentary on each emblem. She discusses the meaning and importance of the Atalanta Fugiens, the sources Maier used, and the mutual relationships between the emblems. She also includes an additional 30 alchemical engravings that explain her research, including several hard-to-find foldouts reproduced here in this volume.
Digitizing the European Emblem: Issues and Prospects by Peter M. DalyThis work addresses the issues and problems of rendering emblem books more accessible with modern technology. The most recent open sesame that has been heard is digitization, but it - like its predecessors - may open as many problems as it purports to solve.
The Jesuit Emblem: bibliography of secondary literature with select commentary and descriptions by G. Richard DimlerWhy Jesuit emblems? The Society of Jesus produced more books inthis genre than did any other identifiable group of writers andpublished in all major European vernacular languages as well as inLatin. Jeremiah Drexel, for example, was the most prolific and mostpublished writer in Europe in the seventeenth century. He wrote morethan twelve emblem books and each was translated and reissued innumerous later editions. Between 1618 and 1642, 170,000 of Drexel'sbooks were sold in Munich alone - then a city of 22,000 inhabitants.Father Dimler, Research Professor of Emblem Studies at FordhamUniversity, has assembled every known study on Jesuit emblembooks and their authors. His bibliography includes both books writtenby individual Jesuits as well as those produced by Jesuit colleges andinstitutions.
The European Emblem: Selected Papers from the Glasglow Conference 11-14 August 1987 by Bernard F. Scholz (Editor); Michael Bath (Editor); David Weston (Editor)The ten papers in this volume were all presented at the first International Conference The European Emblem", held in Glasgow in August, 1987 under the auspices of the Society for Emblem Studies.The conference included papers discussing most of the major European languages in which emblem books flourished, and the papers selected for the presented volume represent something of the variety and scope of current scholarship in this field.Subjects dealt with include a protoemblematic Latin translation of the Tabula Cebetis, the Emblematum Liber by Andreas Alciat, the earliest reception of the Ars Emblematica in Dutch, the career of Thomas Palmer, Daniel Cramers 80 Emblemata moralia nova, and the Emlimata of Polockij.The papers selected for this volume demonstrate the vigor and variety of work in this field, whilst also suggesting some of the directions and opportunities for further research."
Publication Date: 1990
European Emblem: Towards an Index Emblematicus by P. M. DalyEmblems—pictorial designs with accompanying mottoes and epigrams— helped to shape virtually every form of verbal and visual communication in the West during the sixteenth and seventh centuries. A recent re-awakening of scholarly interest in the emblem has brought to light the difficulty of locating and consulting the unorganized mass of available material. Recognizing the need for a large-scale systematic index to the emblem, the editor organized a symposium at McGill University to discuss the possibilities of preparing such an index. The resulting papers by six symposium participants— Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Peter M. Daly, Peter Erb, G. Richard Dimler, Lorelei Robins, and Alan Young—contribute to our knowledge of the emblems of Peacham and Corrozet, the Dutch love emblems, the Jesuit emblem, and emblems used in books of mediation. The essays also discuss the problems and procedures involved in preparing an Index Emblematicus, a work which would serve scholars working in the fields of literature, art, culture, religion, history, and the languages. The volume is richly illustrated with over forty emblem reproductions.
English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics: A Systematic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources by Heinrich F. PlettThis volume is the first comprehensive reference work on English Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. It is arranged in four sections: (A) bibliographies, (B) primary sources, (C) secondary sources, (D) indices. Section B lists more than 500 books on rhetoric and poetics published in the British Isles and abroad between 1479 and 1660. Detailed information is provided on each of them: transcription of the title-page of the editio princeps, call number of the library copy consulted, further historical and modern editions, together with the relevant secondary literature. Section C covers the whole range of applied rhetoric and poetics" totalling some 2,000 titles between 1900 and 1994. It deals systematically with such topics a "General Studies", "Rhetorical Genres" and "Rhetoric/Poetics and Individual Authors". An introductory essay outlines the principles of the bibliography."