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Typus mundi, in quo eius calamitates et pericula nec non diuini, humanique amoris antipathia emblematice proponuntur

Collegium Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, Belgium) · 1627 · Antuerpiae : Apud Ioan. Cnobbaert · 33 pictures

Typus mundi is a 1627 emblem book printed in Antwerp by Joannes Cnobbaert and attributed to the Jesuit Collegium Societatis Jesu, intended for moralising readers. Its engraved plates pair a small allegorical scene with a Latin motto beneath, each framed by a running header reading Typus and a page number. A designer might take from them the layout of image above motto, with winged putti, globes, and halos rendered in fine crosshatched line.

Emblems (allegorical pictures)

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