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French Honours Option
Emblem Books 

Resources in Special Collections

Early French Emblems 

Alciato and Translations

 Alciato and Translations 
 Early Vernacular Emblems
 Réforme / Contre-réforme
 Love human and divine 

listing of relevant books

Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber (Latin)
Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1531 Sp Coll S.M. 18
* See also a web edition of this book (with commentary and useful links) mounted by the Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland*

Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber (Latin)
Lyon:  Mace Bonhomme, 1550 Sp Coll S.M. Add. 265
*This edition is available in facsimile with an English translation which you may find useful; this will be available on Short Loan: Classics ZZA150.E5 1996-K (there is also a copy of this facsimile available for consultation in Special Collections: Sp Coll S.M. Add. q138)*

Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber (French & Latin)
Translated by Jean Le Fevre
 Paris: Chretien Wechel, 1536 Sp Coll S.M. 23b
*This book is available in its entirety via the French Emblems at Glasgow website*

Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber (French)
Translated by Barthélemy Aneau
 Lyon:  Mace Bonhomme, 1549 Sp Coll S.M. 33 
*This book is available in its entirety via the French Emblems at Glasgow website*

Andrea Alciati Emblematum liber (French & Latin)
Translated by Claude Mignault
Paris : Jean Richer, 1584 Sp Coll S.M. Add. 283
*This book is available in its entirety via the French Emblems at Glasgow website*

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Sapientia humana, stultitia est apud Deum

S.M. Add. 265: Page 11

S.M. 33: Pages 22 & 23


S.M. Add. 283: Folios 8r & 8v-9r

Anteros, Amor virtutis, alium Cupidinem superans

S.M. Add. 265: Page 120

S.M. 23b: Folios K6v - K7r

 S.M. 33: Page 135

S.M. Add. 283: Folios 152v - 153r

Vis amoris

S.M. 18: Folio D7r

S.M. Add. 265: Page 117

S.M. 23b: Folios K7v - K8r

S.M. 33: Page 130

S.M. Add. 283: Folios 148r - 148v

In occasionem

S.M. 18: Folios A8r - A8v

S.M. Add. 265: Page 133

S.M. 23b: Folios C5v - C6r

S.M. 33: Pages 149 - 150

 S.M. Add. 283: Folios 169r & 169v - 170r

Philautia

S.M. Add. 265: Page 77

S.M. 33: Page 91

S.M. Add. 283: Folios 98r & 98v - 99r

Doctos doctis obloqui nefas esse

 

S.M. Add. 265: Page 193

S.M. 23b: Folios O4v - O5r

S.M. 33: Pages 219 - 220

S.M. Add. 283: Folios 244v - 245r & 245v

 

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