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MONTENAY, Georgette de (1540-1581). Emblematum christianorum centuria... Cent emblemes chrestiens. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1584.
4° (194 x 142 mm).Text in Latin and French. Etched portrait of the author and 100 emblematic etchings by Pierre Woeiriot. (Without final blank F4, title with marginal tears repaired without loss but touching one word, tiny marginal hole to m4.) Red morocco by L. Claessens, covers with large central lozenge of plant fronds composed with roll and dotted tools, these repeated to form large cornerpieces, gilt spine, turn-ins, marbled-endpapers, gilt edges (spine faded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Kansas City Public Library (ink stamp in lower margin on A2r).
FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST RELIGIOUS EMBLEM BOOK TO MAKE USE OF LOVE EMBLEMS, THE FIRST PROTESTANT EMBLEM BOOK AND THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK BY A WOMAN. IT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE SYSTEMATIC EXPLOITATION OF EMBLEMS FOR RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK TO USE INCISED ENGRAVINGS (BY PIERRE WOEIRIOT) RATHER THAN WOODCUTS FOR THE PICTURAE.
The dedicatee is Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, seen in the first emblem in the act of building a temple, with the motto 'Sapiens mulier aedificat domus'. The beautiful engravings are the work of Pierre Woeirot; in this edition a new emblem 18 replaces the original of the 1571 edition. It is also interesting to note that the beautiful portrait of Georgette de Montenay served as the model for the portrait of the calligrapher Esther Inglis in her manuscript 'Le livre de l'Ecclesiaste', 1601 (cf Mortimer).
Adams M-1715; Brunet III, 1853; Landwehr German 443; Landwehr Romanic 530; Praz, p.431; Vinet 849; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 380.
4° (194 x 142 mm).Text in Latin and French. Etched portrait of the author and 100 emblematic etchings by Pierre Woeiriot. (Without final blank F4, title with marginal tears repaired without loss but touching one word, tiny marginal hole to m4.) Red morocco by L. Claessens, covers with large central lozenge of plant fronds composed with roll and dotted tools, these repeated to form large cornerpieces, gilt spine, turn-ins, marbled-endpapers, gilt edges (spine faded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Kansas City Public Library (ink stamp in lower margin on A2r).
FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST RELIGIOUS EMBLEM BOOK TO MAKE USE OF LOVE EMBLEMS, THE FIRST PROTESTANT EMBLEM BOOK AND THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK BY A WOMAN. IT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE SYSTEMATIC EXPLOITATION OF EMBLEMS FOR RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK TO USE INCISED ENGRAVINGS (BY PIERRE WOEIRIOT) RATHER THAN WOODCUTS FOR THE PICTURAE.
The dedicatee is Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, seen in the first emblem in the act of building a temple, with the motto 'Sapiens mulier aedificat domus'. The beautiful engravings are the work of Pierre Woeirot; in this edition a new emblem 18 replaces the original of the 1571 edition. It is also interesting to note that the beautiful portrait of Georgette de Montenay served as the model for the portrait of the calligrapher Esther Inglis in her manuscript 'Le livre de l'Ecclesiaste', 1601 (cf Mortimer).
Adams M-1715; Brunet III, 1853; Landwehr German 443; Landwehr Romanic 530; Praz, p.431; Vinet 849; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 380.
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