Emblematum sacrorum prima[-secunda] pars : das ist, fünfftzig geistlicher in Kupffer gestochener Emblematum ausz der H. Schrifft von dem süssen Namen vnd Creutz Jesu Christi, erster[-ander] Theyl

Cramer, Daniel, Bachmann, Cunrad, 1572-1648 · 1624 · Franckfurt am Mayn : In Verlegung Lucae Jennis · 120 pictures

A 1624 German emblem book published in Frankfurt am Main by Lucas Jennis, with engravings by Cunrad Bachmann to texts by Daniel Cramer, offering fifty devotional emblems on the sweet name and cross of Jesus for a Christian readership. The pictures are small circular copperplate engravings with a motto banner above and a Roman numeral below, each pairing a sacred or moral image with a landscape of towns and fields. A designer might take the tight circular framing, the crisp hatched line work, and the compact pairing of motto text with a symbolic scene for emblem-style layouts.

Christian art and symbolism

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