Mythologia Ethica

Title

en_US Mythologia Ethica

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Latin

en_US Arnoldus Freitag

Creator

en_US Freitag, Arnold See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gheeraerts, Marcus

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:03Z

en_US 2008-05

en_US 1975

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1579

Abstract

en_US This may be the first true emblem book in this collection, and it is high time. This is a fine example. Bodemann (51.1) may be slightly incorrect when it gives the sequence for each of these 125 fables. On the left page is a title, Latin prose text, and moral. On the right hand page (not the left) is a short motto, a Gheeraerts illustration, and an apt scriptural quotation. The Gheeraerts illustrations are better presented in A Moral Fable-Talk (1987), but here they are put together with the emblematic materials that constituted a strong phase of the fable tradition. The title-page here offers this description: Hoc est moralis philosophiae per fabulas brutis attributas, traditae, amoenissimum viridarium. In quo humanae vitae labyrintho demonstrato virtutus semita pulcherrimis praeceptis, veluti Thesei filo docet. That viridarium is a pleasure-garden. Unfortunately, Bodemann does not offer a specific source for these texts. Are they Freitag's own? The bottom of each page has the first syllable of the following page, even moving from a left to a right page. Some of the impressions are understandably light. Even in this slightly shadowy representation, Gheeraerts' work is splendid!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 51.1

en_US 6338 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81667

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US Philippe Galle, Christophorus Plantinus/George Ladias Limited

en_US Antwerp/Athens

Subject

en_US PA8520.F84 M98 1975 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole