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On-Line Texts
 Andrea
Alciato's Emblematum liber Alciato's influential book of emblems in
Latin with English translations, commentaries, cross-references to Whitney,
the Greek Antholody, and much more.
The following titles are part of the Glasgow
University Emblem Site:
- Alciato in Lefevre's translation, Livret des emblemes, Paris:
Chrétien Wechel, 1536
Alciato in Aneau's translation, Les
emblemes, Lyons: Macé Bonhomme, 1549
The following titles are part of the The
English Emblem Book Project at Penn State University:
- Ayres, Philip. Emblemata amatoria,
Emblemes d'amour en quatre langue. Londe, L'Amoureux,[168-].
Harvey, Christopher. The School of
the Heart, or, The heart of it self gone away from God, brought back
again to him, and instructed by him, in 47 emblems / by the author
of the Synagogue annexed to Herbert's poems ; whereunto is added,
The learning of the heart, by the same hand. The third edition. London,
Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676.
Goodyere, Henry, Sir, (H. G.) The mirrour
of maiestie, or, The badges of honor conceitedly emblazoned, A photo-lith.
fac-simile reprint from Mr. Corser's perfect copy. A.D. 1618.
- Hugo, Herman Pia desideria, authore
Hermanno Hugone. Editio novissima, recognita & emendata. Lugduni,
sumpt. Petri Guillimin, in vico Bellae Corderiae, 1679.
Claude Paradin. The heroicall devises
of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons
and others. Translated out of our Latin into English by P.S. William
Kearney (London, 1591). MIRROR
Quarles, Francis. Emblems, divine and
moral, together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man / written by
Francis Quarles. In the Savoy, Printed by J. Nutt, and sold by E.
Nutt, [17--?]. Preface dated 1634.
R. B. Choice emblems, divine and moral,
antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty
select emblems ... / with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of
lottery, for illustrating each emblem. 6th ed. London, Printed for
E. Parker, 1732.
Whitney, Geffrey. A Choice of Emblemes,
and other devises, For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers,
Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised. / by Geffrey Whitney
... Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis
Raphelengius, 1586. MIRROR
Wither, George. A collection of Emblemes,
Ancient and Moderne, Quickened with metricall illustrations, both
Morall and divine: And Disposed into lotteries, that instruction,
and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation.
/ By George Wither. The first-fourth booke. London, Printed by A.M.
for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunflanes,
1635. - Wither's A Collection of Emblemes by the students
at Harvey Mudd College (with partial electronic lottery!)
- Cesare
Ripa's Iconologia at Penn State University (see the brief
introduction to the emblem book collection) MIRROR
- Extracts related to alchemy in Cesare
Ripa's Iconologia transcribed from a manuscript in the British
Library.
The
Aberdeen Bestiary -- an on-line edition of this extraordinary book with
an introduction, "What is a Bestiary?"
Sites on Spanish Emblem Books:
- Grupo de Investigación
sobre Literatura Emblemática Hispánica (University of
Coruna, Spain)
- Emblemática
A good bibliography by Antonio Bernat Vistarini at the Universitat de les
Illes Balears.
Primary Materials for Proverbs and Early Modern Lore
Thomas
Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (London, 1672)
 Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. [Adagia. English]
Adages / translated by Margaret Mann Phillips ; annotated by R.A.B. Mynors.
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1982- v. ; 26 cm. (Collected
works of Erasmus ; v. 30-) Starr Library Stacks PA8500 1974 v.31 & PA8500
1974 v.33 [on reserve in Starr]
Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. [Adagia. English]
The "Adages" of Erasmus; a study with translations, by Margaret
Mann Phillips. Cambridge, University Press, 1964. xvi, 418 p. facsim. 23
cm. Starr Library Stacks PN6418 .E84 1964 [on reserve in Starr] |
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