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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 10687564, member: 14916&quot;]Another addition to my collection! This book is (unfortunately) not complete, it contains only 97 of the 102 copper engravings, designed by the famous painter and engraver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_van_Veen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_van_Veen" rel="nofollow">Otto van Veen</a> (also know as Otto Vaenius). Hij was the teacher of Peter Paul Rubens. He is known to be operating between the renaissance and the baroque art style. I have already <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/emblem-book-amoris-divini-emblemata-1660.79108/#post-9542132" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/emblem-book-amoris-divini-emblemata-1660.79108/#post-9542132">another book of Otto van Veen</a> in my collection. [USER=13761]@2manycats[/USER] mentioned this book in my post.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533785[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace" rel="nofollow">Horace</a> and contains copper engravings and poems. In my edition (the second edition from 1607) the text contains French and Dutch poems next to the original Latin text.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533786[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Dutch language is very hard to understand, just as our national anthem that originates from the same era. An example for the Dutch speakers here:</p><p><br /></p><p>De wijsheyt van de Sotheyt vliet:</p><p>De deught moet van d&#039;ondeughden wijcken /</p><p>Twee teghen-deelen paeren niet /</p><p>Ghelijck sich voeght by sijns ghelijcken.</p><p>De sieckten van den gheest men moet</p><p>Verwinnen door het vlieden wijslijck;</p><p>De vlucht die ons beloopen doet</p><p>Der eeren crans / is nut en prijslijck.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533788[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533789[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533790[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533791[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There she is again: the multi-breasted lady (Artemis/Diana).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533792[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The binding is from a later date, probably the 18th or 19th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533784[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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