Iacobi â Bruck Angermundt Cogn. Sil. Emblemata moralia & bellica. :
Nunc recens in lucem edita.

Description

Main Author

Bruck, Jacobus à

Related Names

Gruterus, Janus, 1560-1627
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.
Heyden, Jacob van der, 1573-1645, publisher.
Francis Bacon Library

Language(s)

Latin ; German

Published

Argentorati [Strasbourg] : Per Iacobum ab Heyden, Iconographum, Anno MDCXV. [1615]

Subjects

Emblems.
Emblem books.
Emblems > Emblems / Early works to 1800.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Early works to 1800.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Germany > Emblem books / Germany / 17th century.
Early works.
Poems.
Engravings (prints)

Note

Not same as reported by landwehr.
Printed French text is a description of emblems. French poetical text in letterpress has added title page: Les emblemes moraux et militaires / du sieur Jacob de Bruck Angermundt. A Strasbourg : Par Jacob de Heyden graveur, l'an. 1616.
Faber du Faur cites Bruck's Emblematica politica, 1618, only.
Each of the 56 emblems with a Latin motto and a four-line Latin epigram by Janus Gruterus--cf. Landwehr.
Dedicatory emblem by Janus Gruterus.
Engraved historiated title page signed by Matthaeus Merian; 58 engraved illustrations divided between emblems "moralia" and "bellica."
Imprint date on t.p. formed with [eternity symbol] and turned Cs.
Signatures: A-B⁴.
With Iselberg, P. Emblemata politica. Nuremberg, 1617.

Physical Description

[16] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 20 cm (4to)

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