Cervvs, hoc est, qvæ per cervvm significata fvere sacris Ægyptiorvm literis. Der Hirsch, vnd Bedeutung der Figuren desselben, welche bey den weisesten Leuten in Egypten breuchlich gewesen sein
A 1602 emblem book printed in Augsburg by J. Schultes, with Latin and German text, written by Baruch Loth and illustrated by Dominicus Custos, interpreting the stag through Egyptian hieroglyphic learning for educated readers. The engravings show stags in woodland and meadow settings, with a hunter, a palm tree, a village and hills behind them, and a designer might take their small, numbered, expressive animal poses and sparse landscape backgrounds as models for emblematic scenes.
