Orpheus eucharisticus, siue, Deus absconditus humanitatis illecebris illustriores mundi partes ad se pertrahens, vltroneas arcanae maiestatis adoratrices : opus nouum, in varias historicorum emblematum aeneis tabulis incisorum centurias distinctum, quae strictâ, solutâque oratione explanantur, adiectis authorum fontibus ex quibus eruuntur : tomus primus, primam centuriam complectens
Orpheus eucharisticus is a 1657 Latin emblem book published in Paris by Florentin Lambert, with text by Augustin Chesneau and Albert Flamen, aimed at scholarly readers of Eucharistic symbolism. Its engraved plates each pair a small scene with a motto and a verse, such as a bird feeding its young, a pelican, a figure beside fire, or an octopus on the water. A designer could borrow the compact framed-vignette layout and the emblem-style pairing of image with motto.
