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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

Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663, Haeften, Benedictus van, 1588-1648. Schola cordis, Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 · 1676 · London, Printed for Lodowick Lloyd · 27 pictures

A 1676 London edition of Christopher Harvey's emblem book, adapting Benedictus van Haeften's Schola cordis into 47 English verse emblems on the heart's return to God, for Protestant devotional readers. Small copperplate engravings pair a winged child-angel with a kneeling soul who carries a heart-shaped vessel, set in sparse landscapes with radiating haloes, streaming ribbons, feathery trees and hatched ground.

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