Viridarium hieroglyphico-morale : in quo virtutes et vitia atqve mores huius aevi secundum tres ordines hierarchicos -- ecclesiasticum, politicum, oeconomicum ... explicantur : & non tantum dictis & exemplis historiarum veterum ac recentium, ex sacris scripturis, sanctis patribus, seu dd. Ecclesiae, poetis, philosophis, historicis cum christianorum tum gentilium, sed etiam artificiosissimis eiconibus hieroglyphicis illustrantur ...
Viridarium hieroglyphico-morale is a Latin emblem book by Heinrich Oraeus, engraved after Jacques de Zetter, published in Frankfurt in 1619 by Lucas Jennis for a learned readership concerned with virtues, vices and social hierarchy. Its pictures are small framed engravings in which allegorical figures, skulls, globes, animals and emblematic objects are set against cloudy skies and distant landscapes, giving a designer a dense repertoire of Baroque allegory and symbolic iconography to draw on for compositional ideas.
