Digital Emblem Books
The following printed books from the Penn State University Libraries Rare Books Room are included as the core of the English emblem archive.
Author | Title | Link to Bibliography | Link to Table of Contents |
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Philip Ayres | Emblemata amatoria, Emblemes d'amour en quatre langue. | Ayers Bibliography |
Ayers Table of Contents |
Christopher Harvey | The School of the Heart, or, The heart of it self gone away from God, brought back again to him, and instructed by him, in 47 emblems. | Harvey Bibliography | Harvey Table of Contents |
Henry Green | The mirrour of maiestie, or, The badges of honor conceitedly emblazoned. | Green Bibliography |
Green Table of Contents |
Herman Hugo | Pia Desideria Emblematis Elegiis & affectibus S. S. Patrum illustrataPia Desideria, Henry Bonwicke. | Hugo Bibliography |
Hugo Table of Contents |
Claude Paradin | The heroicall devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of our Latin into English by P.S. William Kearney (London, 1591). | Paradin Bibliography | Paradin Table of Contents |
Francis Quarles | Emblems, divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man. | Quarles Bibliography | Quarles Table of Contents |
R. B. | Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems ... with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem. | R.B. Bibliography |
R.B. Table of Contents |
Cesare Ripa | Iconologia or, Moral emblems | Ripa Table of Contents |
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Geffrey Whitney | A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises, For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised. | Whitney Bibliography | Whitney Table of Contents |
George Wither | A collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened with metricall illustrations, both Morall and divine: And Disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. | Wither Bibliography |
Wither Table of Contents |