and beneath the Annunciation, “Virgo salutatur, Innupta manens gravidatur.”
From Ezekiel’s niche issues the scroll, Ez. xliv. 2, “Porta hæc clausa erit, et non aperietur;” and from Jeremiah’s, xxxi. 22, “Creavit dominus novum super terram, femina circumdabit virum.”
It requires no argument to prove the emblematical nature of the middle compartment of this page from the Biblia Pauperum; and the texts on scrolls are but the accessories to the devices, and serve only the more clearly to mark this Block-book as an Emblem-book.
Plate 7
S. John the Evangelist. 1st edition Block Book from the Corser Collection.
Plate 8
