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M. Laurentii Wolfgangi Woyttens Emblematischer Parnassus : worauf die Musen, ihre Blumen-lese zu allerhand Freuden und Trauer-kränken halten. Um den Lob-werthen Tugend-chor durch angenehme rosen hergegen das ungezähmte Laster-thun mit wildem Dorn- und Distel-flor zu krönen

Woytt, Laurentius Wolfgang, 1673-1724? · 1727 · Augspurg : In Verlag Jeremias Wolffs Kunsthändlers seel. erben · 42 pictures

An emblem book compiled by Laurentius Wolfgang Woytt and issued in Augsburg in 1727 by the heirs of the print dealer Jeremias Wolff, offering moralized images with Latin mottoes and German verses for preachers, poets and schoolmasters. Each plate is a grid of sixteen small oval engravings — animals, ships, ruins, tools, fire, stars, figures at work — with lettered mottoes above and rhymed captions below, useful for spot vignettes, oval frames and dense caption-and-image layouts.

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