M. Laurentii Wolfgangi Woyttens Emblematischer Parnassus : worauf die Musen, ihre Blumen-Lese, zu allerhand Freuden und Trauer-Kräntzen halten : um, den Lob-werthen Tugend-Chor, durch angenehme Rosen : hergegen, das ungezähmte Laster-Thun, mit wildem Dorn- und Distel-Flor, zu krönen : nach specialem Verlangen, in einem Gefilde, von funffzehen Hundert in dreyen verschiedlichen Theilen verfassten ..
An emblem compendium assembled by Laurentius Wolfgang Woytt and published by Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg in 1727, gathering fifteen hundred emblems in three parts with mottoes in Italian, German, French and Latin for preachers, poets and makers of occasional verse. The plates pack twelve oval engravings to a page, each a small scene — sun and moon, telescopes and burning glasses, beehives, ships, wells, gardeners, kneeling figures — ringed by letterpress mottoes, giving designers a dense supply of compact pictorial signs and ready-made grid layouts.
