Emblemes sacrez sur le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'eucharistie.
1667
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Title
Emblemes sacrez sur le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'eucharistie.
Uniform title
Orpheus eucharisticus. French
Created/published
A Paris : Chez Florentin Lambert ..., 1667.
Description
[12], 205, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Chesneau, Augustin, active 17th century, author.
Note
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Cited/described in
Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, 225
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271686 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "[Chesneau, Augustin, O.E.S.A.] [Flamen, Albert]: Emblemes sacrez sur le tres-saint et tres-adorable Sacrement de l'Eucharistie. A Paris, chez Florentin Lambert, ruë S. Iacques, à l'Image S. Paul, vis à vis S. Yues. 1667. 8vo. (18.5 cms. x 12.7 cms.), pp. [12] 205 [1] (recte 204). Woodcut device to title- page, further woodcut decoration, 101 engraved plates numbered [1], 100. Light browning, a very good copy in c.1700 mottled calf, gilt decoration to spine and sides,marbled pastedowns and endpapers, edges mottled red (rubbed, abrasion to covers probably from the mottling chemical, discreet repairs to head and tail, binding still very good). The abridged first French-language edition - second edition in all - of the 'Orpheus eucharisticus, sive Deus absconditus' (1657), a Latin-language emblem book on the subject of the Eucharist which presents a fascinating variety of images from the natural and human worlds, with notes. The new text was prepared by Augustin Lubin. Our 101 emblems were engraved by Albert Flamen (c.1620 - after 1693). "Flamen's work consists primarily of series of fish [...] birds, mammals, landscapes [...] [His] strength as an engraver lies in his use of picturesque elements [...] Possibly he can be identified with the 'A. Flament' who is documented in 1692 as 'peintre et dessinateur ordinaire de Monsieur, Frère du Roy'" (Christian Coppens in Grove Dictionary of Art). Emblem XXII shows the legendary legless apode bird recently reported in the Moluccas Islands. Emblem XXX depicts the pauxis, with a precious blue stone in its nose, which was understood to have been brought from America to Philip II of Spain. Emblem XXXI shows another bird of the Indies, and emblem XXXII shows a thrush from the area of Chiapas (in modern Mexico). Emblem XXXIII shows crows and has a report on fishing with crows in China. Emblem LIII has an elephant, and emblem LV, a unicorn. Emblem LXVI shows an electric eel found in the Meta river (a tributary of the Orinoco) - giving a fisherman a jolt. Emblem LXVII shows a shark ("tiburon"), "a large fish of the American seas", jumping for flesh. Emblem LXX shows a poisonous snake of Mexico. Emblem LXXIV shows a crocodile, and emblem LXXXIII shows an armadillo. "The author's intention [...] was to lead the most illustrious creatures to the foot of the altar, to offer there their homages to their Sovereign" (preface to this edition). Landwehr 'Romanic' 225. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at Columbia, Newberry, Duke, Princeton, Getty, Yale, Glasgow, Ushaw, Harvard, McMaster, Huntington."|Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9353, 2019-10-07, Cat. October 2019, item 12.
Folger accession
271686