| Latin. | ||||
| Callia | Emblemata sacra, e libris Mosis excerpta. | 32mo | Heidelbergæ | 1591 k. |
| Borcht | P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses. | obl. | 16mo Antverpiæ | 1591 t. |
| Stimmer | Icones Affabræ | ... | Strasburg | 1591 v. |
| Mercerius | Emblemata | 4to | Bourges | 1592 t. |
| De Bry | Emblemata nobilitate et vulgo scitu digna. | obl. 4to | Francof | 1592 v. |
| ” | Emblemata secularia | 4to | ” | 1593 v. |
| Freitag | Viridiarium Moralis Phil. per fabulas, &c. | 4to | Coloniæ | 1594 k. |
| Taurellius | Emblema physico-ethica, &c. | 8vo | Norimbergæ | 1595 k. |
| Boissard | Theatrum vitæ Humanæ | 4to | Metz | 1596 t. |
| Franceschino | Hori Apollinis selecta hieroglyphica. | 16mo | Romæ | 1597 v. |
| Le Bey de Batilly. | Emb. a J. Boissard delineata, &c. | 4to | Francof | 1596 t. k. |
| Altorfinæ | Emb. anniversaria Academiæ Altorfinæ. | 4to | Norimbergæ | 1597 k.c.t. |
| David | Virtutis spectaculum | 4to | Francof | 1597 v. |
| ” | Veridicus christianus | 4to | Antverpiæ | 1601 t. k. |
| David | Occasio arrepta, neglecta, &c. | 4to | Antverpiæ | 1605 c. t. |
| ” | Pancarpium Marianum | 8vo | ” | 1607 t. |
| ” | Messis myrrhæ et aromatum, &c. | 8vo | ” | 1607 v. |
| ” | Paradisus sponsi et sponsæ, &c. | 8vo | ” | 1607 k. |
| ” | Dvodecim Specvla, &c. | 8vo | ” | 1610 t. k. |
| Sadeler, Æg. | Symbola Divina et Humana Pontif. Imper., &c. | fol. | Prague | 1600 k. |
| ” | Symb. Div. et. Hum., &c.;Isagoge Jac. Typotii. | fol. | Francof | 1601, 2, 3 k. |
| Passæus | Metamorphoseωn Ouidianarum typi, &c. | obl.4to | ... | 1602 t. |
| Epidigma | Emblematum Philomilæ Thiloniæ Epidigma. | 4to | ... | 1603 v. |
| Vænius | Horatii Emblemata, imaginibus (ciii.) in æs incisis. | 4to | Antuerp | 1607 k. |
| ” | Amorvm Emblemata, Figvris æneis incisa. | 4to | Antuerpiæ | 1608 t. k. |
| ” | Amoris Divini Emblemata | 4to | Antuerpiæ | 1615 t. |
| Pignorius | Vetustissimæ tabulæ æneæ sacris Ægyptiorum simulacris cœlatæ explicatio. | 4to | Venetia | 1605 v. |
| ” | Characteres Ægyptii ... per Jo. Th. et Jo. Isr. de Bry. | 4to | Francofurti | 1608 v. |
| Sadeler, Æg. | Theatrum morum. Artliche gespräch der Thier met wahren Historien, &c. | 4to | Pragæ | 1608 |
| Broecmer | Emblemata moralia et œconomica. | 4to | Arnhemi | 1609 t. |
| Aleander | Explicatio antiquæ Fabulæ marmoreæ Solis effigie, symbolisque exsculptæ, &c. | 4to | Romæ | 1611 k. |
| Rollenhagen | Nvclevs Emblematum selectissimorum. | 4to | Coloniæ | 1611–13 c. t. |
| ” | ” ” ” | 4to | Arnhemi | 1615 k. |
| Hillaire | Specvlvm Heroicvm—Homeri—Iliados. | 4to | Traject. Bat. | 1613 c. |
| À Bruck | Emblemata moralia et bellica | 4to | Argentinæ | 1615 v. |
Peter Vander Borcht, born at Brussels about A.D. 1540, engraved numerous works, and among them 178 prints for this edition of Ovid. The Stimmers have been mentioned before, p. 90. Jean Mercier, born at Uzès in Languedoc, wrote the Latin version of the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, Paris, 1548,—but probably it was his son Josias whose Emblems are mentioned under the year 1592, and who dates them from Bruges. Theodore De Bry, born at Liege in 1528 (Bryan, p. 119), carried on the business of an engraver and bookseller in Francfort, where he died in 1598. He was greatly assisted by his sons John Theodore and John Israel. The Procession of the Knights of the Garter in 1566, and that at the Funeral of Sir Philip Sidney, are his workmanship. Nicolas Taurellius was a student, and afterwards professor of Physic and Medicine in the University of Altorf in Franconia. An oration of his appears in the Emblemata Anniversaria of that institution. He was named “the German Philosopher.” Denis le Bey de Batilly appears to have been royal president of the Consistory of Metz. John David, born at Courtray in Flanders, in 1546, entered the Society of the Jesuits, and was rector of the colleges of Courtray, Brussels, and Ghent; he died in 1613. Ægidius Sadeler, known as the Phœnix of engravers, was a native of Antwerp, born in 1570, the nephew and disciple of the two eminent engravers John and Raphael Sadeler. He enjoyed a pension from three successive emperors, Rodolphus II., Matthias, and Ferdinand II. Of Crispin de Passe, born at Utrecht about 1560, Bryan (p. 548) says, “He was a man of letters, and not only industrious to perfect himself in his art, but fond of promoting it.” His works were numerous, and have examples in the Emblem-books of his day. Otho van Veen, of a distinguished family, was born at Leyden in 1556. After a residence of seven years in Italy, he established himself at Antwerp, and had the rare claim to celebrity that Rubens became his disciple. In his Emblem-works the designs were by himself, but the engravings by his brother Gilbert van Veen. (Bryan, p. 853, 4.) Lawrence Pignorius, born at Padua, 1571, and educated at the Jesuits’ school and the university of that city, gained a high reputation by several learned works, and especially by those on Egyptian antiquities. He died of the plague in 1631. The work of Richard Lubbæus Broecmer, is little more than a reprint of one by Bernard Furmer, in 1575, On the Use and Abuse of Wealth. Jerome Aleander, nephew of one of Luther’s stoutest opponents, the Cardinal Aleander, was of considerable literary reputation at Rome, being a member of the society of Humourists, established in that city,—his death was in 1631. According to Oetlinger’s brief notice, Bibliog. Biograph. Univ., Gabriel Rollenhagen, of Magdeburg, was a German schoolmaster, born in 1542, and dying in 1609; his Kernel of Emblems is well illustrated by Crispin de Passe. The same “excellent engraver” adorned The Mirror of Heroes, founded on Homer’s Iliad by “le sieur de la Rivière, Isaac Hillaire.” Both Latin and French verses are appended to the Emblems, and at their end are curious “Epitaphs on the Heroes who fell in the Trojan war,” too late, it is to be feared, to afford any gratification to their immediate friends. To Jacobus à Bruck, surnamed of Angermunde, a town of Brandenberg, there belongs another Emblem-book, Emblemata Politica, Cologne, 1618. In it are briefly demonstrated the duties which belong to princes; it is dedicated “to his most merciful Prince and Lord, the Emperor Matthias I., ‘semper Augusto.’”
| German. | ||||
| De Bry | Emblemata Secvlaria—rhythmis Germanicis, &c. | 4to | Francofurti | 1596 v. |
| ” | ” ” ” | 4to | Oppenhemii | 1611 t. |
| Boissard | Shawspiel Menschliches Lebens | 4to | Franckf. | 1597 v. |
| Sadeler | Theatrum morum. Artliche gespräch der Thier, &c. | 4to | Praga | 1608 v. |
| Dutch or Flemish. | ||||
| David | Christelücke | 4to | Antuerp | 1603 k. |
| Vænius | Zinnebeelden der Wereldtsche Liefde. | 4to | Amstel. | 1603 v. |
| À Ganda | Spiegel van de doorluchtige,&c., Vrouwen. | obl. 4to | Amsterod. | 1606 t. |
| ” | Emblemata Amatoria Nova | obl. 4to | Lugd. Bat. | 1613 k. |
| Moerman | De Cleyn Werelt ... metover schoone Const-platen. | 4to | Amstelred. | 1608 k. |
| Ieucht | Den nieuwen Ieucht spieghel ... C. de Passe. | obl. 4to | ... | 1610 t. |
| Embl. Amat. | Afbeeldinghen, &c. | obl. 4to | Amsterd. | 1611 k. |
| Gulden | Den Gulden Winckel der Konstliev ende Nederlanders Gestoffeert. | 4to | Amsterdam | 1613 k. |
| Bellerophon | Bellerophon, of Lust tot Wysheyd. | 4to | Amsterdam | 1614 k. |
| Visscher | Sinnepoppen (or Emblem Play) van Roemer Visscher. | 12mo | Amsterdam | 1614 k. |
De Bry, Sadeler, David, and Vænius have been mentioned in page 96. Theocritus à Ganda is known for this work, The Mirror of virtuous Women, for which Jost de Hondt executed the fine copper-plates that accompany it; and also for Emblemata Amatoria Nova, published at Amsterdam in 1608, and at Leyden in 1613. The Little World, by Jan Moerman, is of the same class with Le Microcosme, Lyons, 1562, by Maurice de Sceve; or with “ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ,” Antwerp, 1584 and 1594, and which Sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell attributes to Henricus Costerius of Antwerp. The New Mirror of Youth, 1610; The Delineations, 1611; The golden Ship of the Art-loving Netherlander finished, 1613; and Bellerophon, or Pleasure of Wisdom, 1614; are all anonymous. Roemer van Visscher, born at Amsterdam in 1547 (Biog. Univ. vol. xlix. p. 276), is of high celebrity as a Dutch poet,—with Spiegel and Coörnhert, he was one of the chief restorers of the Dutch language, and an immediate predecessor of the two illustrious poets of Holland, Cornelius van Hooft and Josse du Vondel.
| Spanish. | ||||
| De Soto | Emblemas Moralizadas | 8vo | Madrid | 1599 t. k. |
| Vænius | Amorum emblemata. (Latin and Spanish verses). | 4to | Antuerpiæ | 1608 v. |
| ” | Amoris divini Emb....hispanicè, &c. | 4to | ” | 1615 t. |
| Orozco | Emblemas Morales | 4to | Madrid | 1610 t. k. |
| Villava | Empresas Espirituales y Morales | 4to | Baeça | 1613 k. |
Hernando de Soto was auditor and comptroller for the King of Spain in his house of Castile. At the end are stanzas of three verses each, in Latin and Spanish on alternate pages, “to our Lady the Virgin.” Don Sebastian de Couarrubias Orozco was chaplain to the King of Spain, schoolmaster and canon of Cuenca, and adviser of the Holy Office. Both Soto and Orozco dedicate their works to Don Francisco Gomez de Sandoual, Duke of Lerma. Juan Francisco de Villava dedicates his first Emblem “to the Holy and General Inquisition of Spain.” Neither of the three names occurs in the Biographies to which I have access.
| English. | ||||
| P. S. | The Heroicall Devises of M. Clavdivs Paradin. | 8vo | London | 1591 c. |
| Wyrley | The true use of Armorie, shewed by historic, and plainly proved by example. | 4to | London | 1592 v. |
| Willet | Sacrorvm Emblematvm Centvria vna, &c. A Century of Sacred Emblems. | 4to | Cambridge | 1598 v. |
| Crosse | Crose his Covert, or a Prosopopœicall Treatise. | MS. | About 1600 c. | |
| Vænius | Amorum Emblemata (Latin, English, and Italian). | 4to | Antverpiæ | 1608 k. t. |
| Guillim | A Display of Heraldry | fol. | London | 1611 k. |
| Peacham | Minerva Britanna, or a Garden of Heroical Deuises, &c. | 4to | London | 1612 c. t. k. |
| Yates, MS. | The Emblems of Alciatus in English verse. | MS. | About 1610 t. | |
William Wyrley’s True use of Arms, was reprinted in 1853. In Censura Lit., i. p. 313, Samuel Egerton Brydges gives a pleasing account of the character of Andrew Willet, whom Fuller ranks among England’s worthies (vol. i. p. 238). Of John Crosse himself, nothing is known, but his MS. is certainly not later than Elizabeth’s reign, for the royal arms, at p. 33, are of earlier date than the accession of the Stuarts; and the allusion to the Belgian dames, pp. 2–6, agrees with her times. The work contains 120 shields and devices, and was lent me by my very steadfast friend in Emblem lore, Mr. Corser of Stand. At pp. 10 and 37, it is said,—
“In Troynovant a famous schoole was founde
By famous Citizens; whilome the grounde