Author: Montenay, Georgette de (1540-1607); Pierre Woeiriot, artist
Title: Monumenta Emblematum Christianorum Virtutum Tum Politicarum, Tum Oeconomicarum Chorum Centuria Una Adumbrantia. Rhythmis Gallicis Elegantissimis PrimůM Conscripta, Figuris ćNis Incisa, & Ad Instar Albi Amicorum Exhibita, ŕ Georgia Montanea Nobil. Gall. Et Nunc Interpretatione Metrica Latina, Hispanica, Italica, Germanica, Anglica & Belgica, Donat . First Edition
Description: [Francofurt. ad Moenum, S.L: Curâ & impensis Ioannis-Caroli Vnckelii, bibliop. [Anno MDCXIX [1619]]. 8vo. 11 x 16.5cm. 18th century calf with gilt spine and inelegant repair to top of spine. Lacks title page and first 3 pages: 4-448pp. with 100 half-page engravings..Numerous manusciript poems signed and dated 1649 in blank areas. Text in 8 languages..Landwehr, Emblem Books..Low Countries, no. 566; OCLC Number 950683051: Originally published Lyon, 1571, in French under title: Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes; enl. ed. of 1619 issued with variant title pages for each language represented in the text: Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Dutch Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title page by Peter Rollos, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and added engraved portrait of Jeanne d'Albret (mounted), and 100 engraved emblematic plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on versos........... Georgette de Montenay was a French Huguenot (Protestant) writer who turned to the secular emblem tradition to express her religious feelings. In the “Letter to readers,” that prefaces the emblems, she says that she writes of the true love of God rather than the fickle love of Cupid. Each of the emblems is composed of a motto, a picture, and a poem. Montenay worked with the talented engraver Pierre Woeiriot, and her emblem book was the first to use engravings rather than woodcut illustrations. It was first published in French in 1567, then in a number of other languages............Georgette de Montenay’s work occupies a particularly important position in the history of emblems: firstly, of course, it was written by a woman, and secondly that woman was a member of the Reformed (Calvinist) faith. Indeed Montenay claims that her book gives us the first Christian emblems (‘..je croy estre premier chrestiens’). This claim needs to be taken in the context of Montenay’s position among Protestants, who at this period, had undergone some kind of personal conversion, ‘Renez par l’Evangile’. Earlier emblematic works are of course also Christian, often very overtly so, if not in quite the same way (e.g. Claude Paradin’s Devises heroiques (Lyons:, 1551; 1557). Nevertheless, Montenay’s Emblemes mark 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. It is distinctive for the way in which it calls on the reader to recognise and often complete biblical allusions, both verbal and visual. .
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Title: Monumenta Emblematum Christianorum Virtutum Tum Politicarum, Tum Oeconomicarum Chorum Centuria Una Adumbrantia. Rhythmis Gallicis Elegantissimis PrimůM Conscripta, Figuris ćNis Incisa, & Ad Instar Albi Amicorum Exhibita, ŕ Georgia Montanea Nobil. Gall. Et Nunc Interpretatione Metrica Latina, Hispanica, Italica, Germanica, Anglica & Belgica, Donat . First Edition
Description: [Francofurt. ad Moenum, S.L: Curâ & impensis Ioannis-Caroli Vnckelii, bibliop. [Anno MDCXIX [1619]]. 8vo. 11 x 16.5cm. 18th century calf with gilt spine and inelegant repair to top of spine. Lacks title page and first 3 pages: 4-448pp. with 100 half-page engravings..Numerous manusciript poems signed and dated 1649 in blank areas. Text in 8 languages..Landwehr, Emblem Books..Low Countries, no. 566; OCLC Number 950683051: Originally published Lyon, 1571, in French under title: Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes; enl. ed. of 1619 issued with variant title pages for each language represented in the text: Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Dutch Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title page by Peter Rollos, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and added engraved portrait of Jeanne d'Albret (mounted), and 100 engraved emblematic plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on versos........... Georgette de Montenay was a French Huguenot (Protestant) writer who turned to the secular emblem tradition to express her religious feelings. In the “Letter to readers,” that prefaces the emblems, she says that she writes of the true love of God rather than the fickle love of Cupid. Each of the emblems is composed of a motto, a picture, and a poem. Montenay worked with the talented engraver Pierre Woeiriot, and her emblem book was the first to use engravings rather than woodcut illustrations. It was first published in French in 1567, then in a number of other languages............Georgette de Montenay’s work occupies a particularly important position in the history of emblems: firstly, of course, it was written by a woman, and secondly that woman was a member of the Reformed (Calvinist) faith. Indeed Montenay claims that her book gives us the first Christian emblems (‘..je croy estre premier chrestiens’). This claim needs to be taken in the context of Montenay’s position among Protestants, who at this period, had undergone some kind of personal conversion, ‘Renez par l’Evangile’. Earlier emblematic works are of course also Christian, often very overtly so, if not in quite the same way (e.g. Claude Paradin’s Devises heroiques (Lyons:, 1551; 1557). Nevertheless, Montenay’s Emblemes mark 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. It is distinctive for the way in which it calls on the reader to recognise and often complete biblical allusions, both verbal and visual. .
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