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French Honours Option
Emblem Books 

Resources in Special Collections

Emblems of Faith and Love 

Réforme / Contre-réforme

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

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Georgette de Montenay Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes
Lyon: Marcorelle, 1571 Sp Coll S.M. 771

This book is available in its entirety via the French Emblems at Glasgow website.

Page 83

Theodore de Beze Les vrais pourtraits des hommes illustres ...
Geneva : Jean de Laon, 1581 Sp Coll S.M. Add. 104

Page 241

Page 268

Jean Jacques Boissard Emblematum liber
Metz: Abraham Faber, 1588 Sp Coll S.M. Add. 415

This book is available in its entirety via the French Emblems at Glasgow website.

Pages 10-11 (Emblem 1)

Pages 12-13 (Emblem 2)

Jan David Veridicus Christianus
Antwerp: Jan Moretus, 1601 Sp Coll S.M. 1300
Page 18 and emblem 6, facing

Augustin Chesneau Orpheus Eucharisticus
Paris: Florentin Lambert, 1667 Sp Coll S.M. 354

Pages 78-79


Etienne Binet  Meditations affectueuses sur la vie de la tressainte Vierge Mere de Dieu
Antwerp: Martin Nutius, aux despens de Theodore Galle, 1632 Sp Coll S.M. Add. 227

Pages 80-81

Pages 82-83

Jacques Callot Lux claustri. La lumiere du cloistre. 
Paris: François Langlois, 1646 Sp Coll S.M. 258

Page 2

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