Sunday, August 12, 2018

"A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne" (sic) by George Wither is an emblem book that was published in London in 1634.

"A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne" (sic) by George Wither is an emblem book that was published in London in 1634.
https://archive.org/details/collectionofembl00withe

It consists of 200 engravings, each accompanied by a Latin motto with English translation and an English poem about 30 lines long.
Interestingly, the book was designed as an oracle: a wheel at the end can be used to randomly select one of the emblems.
I guess that this combination of text and images could make a good oracle for a game set in the XVII Century or with a Baroque-related theme.


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