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Viridarium hieroglyphico-morale : in quo virtutes et vitia, atque mores huius aeui secundum tres ordines hierarchicos, ecclesiasticum, politicum, oeconomicum, per definitiones, distributiones, causas, adfectiones, adiuncta, effecta &c. piè, prudenter, dextrè ac variè explicantur, & non tantum dictis, & exemplis historiarum veterum ac recentium, ex sacris scripturis, sanctis patribus, seu Dd. ecclesiae, poetis, philosophis, historicis cum Christianorum tum gentilium, sed etiam artificiosissimis eiconibus hieroglyphicis illustrantur : opusculum novum ac rarum, cuius vsum atq[ue] vtilitatem praefixa praefatio docebit

Oraeus, Heinrich, 1584-1646, Zetter, Jacques de, d. 1616 · 1619 · Francofurti : Apud Iacobu[m] de Zetter · 91 pictures

A Latin emblem book by Heinrich Oraeus, printed at Frankfurt in 1619 by Jacques de Zetter, setting out virtues, vices and the manners of the age for clerical, political and household readers. The 91 copperplate emblems are small upright scenes in which skeletons, allegorical women, giant hands and faces, globes and crowds act out moral lessons, with dense engraved hatching for clouds, smoke and sky that designers can lift as texture as readily as motif.

Emblems · Emblem books, Latin

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