Les emblemes d'amour diuin et humain ensemble
By: expliquez par des vers françois par un Pere Capucin
Contributors: Mariette, Pierre, 1603-1657, publisher
Publisher: Chez Pierre Mariette ruë S Iacques a l Esperance
Published: 164u
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre; lat
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Emblem books; Emblems; Early works to 1800; French Emblem books; Love
Other titles: Emblemes d'amovr divin et hvmain ensemble
Notes: Wholly engraved.

Issued after 1637, likely around 1640. The plates are also used in 2 undated issues with additional letter press French text. Consult Adams.

Engraved by Jean Messager. Consult Adams. Some plates signed "I. Messager."

The work comprises an engraved title page and 119 copper engravings (118 numbered and 1 unnumbered) after Snyders' Amoris divini et humani effectus, each with a Latin quotation from the Bible and a French couplet. Consult Landwehr.

"Pere Capucin" is assumed to be Ludovicus van Leuven. Consult Adams.

"Auec priuilege du Roy" -- title page.

Engraved title page with border of musical instruments.

Leaves printed on recto only.

120 total leaves in 30 unsigned gatherings.

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 273

Adams, A. Bibliography of French emblem books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, F.080

Text in Latin and French.

Rubenstein Library copy 1: In manuscript on title page verso: Gli Emblemi dellamor divino, ed humano unitamente : spiegati per versi Francesi per un Padre Capuccino ; tradotti in versi Latini, ed Italiani per un Divoto Sacerdote. In Palermo, MDCXCIV.

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Each leaf has Latin and Italian versions of engraved text added in manuscript.

former call number: D-6 E53D