A new light on the renaissance displayed in contemporary emblems (1909)
Bayley, Harold · London, J.M. Dent · leaf 155
PRINTERS’ DEVICES 143 and Light of the World shining amid the darkness that comprehended It not. The Fleur-de-lys was sacred to Fig. 300. — Papermark. 17th century. Lux ; thus we find it sometimes alluded to as the flower de Luce . It was the symbol par excellence of papermakers, and typified the… … ing. It is a significant fact that the motto of the Waldenses of Piedmont was Lux lucet in tenebris — u The Light shines in darkness.” In its attempt “ to expel from the world all those things which darken human knowledge” the mystical church of the Holy Spirit had in hand a task in comparison with…
Emblems · Cabala · Printers' marks · Renaissance
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