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Mignardise.
Probleme.
Pourquoy dit on que l’Hermine, ou Musaigne
De mignardise, & delice est enseigne?[1]
Est ce pourtant quelle est chaude en nature,
Et de sa peau donne aulx Dames vesture?
Rat Sarmatie [=Sarmatic]
, est Zebelin nommé[2]
Musc Arabic,[3] est parfum renommé.
Par la Musaigne, ou Hermine, & la Mar
tre Sebeline, & le Musc Arabic, de Ci-
vette qui sont bestes chaudes & odoran
tes tant vives en chair, que mortes en
peau, est denotée la
delicieuse mignar-
dise, des dames en vestemens, & senteurs.
1. The white mouse was a proverbial example of the effeminate and the promiscuous. See the Suda s.v. mus, and Apostolius, Proverbs, 11,87, who also reports its sexual proclivities.
2. ‘civet cat’, one source of musk, an ingredient in many perfumes. Sarmatia was the region north of the Black Sea.
3. The words ‘mouse’ and ‘musk’ (late Latin muscus) are connected, from the mouse-shaped sac of the male animals which produce musk. Some plants have a musky smell. Muscus also means ‘moss’ - Arabia was famous for plants which produced aromatic gums (e.g. incense and nard).
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- beasts of prey, predatory animals: ermine (+ skin, fleece, hide, fur, leather) [25F23(ERMINE)(+351)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: sable (+ movements of animal(s)) [25F23(SABLE)(+52)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: musk-rat (+ movements of animal(s)) [25F26(MUSK-RAT)(+52)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Licentiousness, Lasciviousness; 'Lascivia', 'Licenza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA51(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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El amor de si mesmo.
Ottava rhima.
Por ser Narcisso,
tu de ti contento
En la flor de tu nombre estàs mudado.[1]
Es falta y manquedad de entendimiento
Ser uno de si mesmo afficionado.
El qual amor à varones sin cuento
En grande çeguedad ha derrocado
Porque dexadas las antiguas vias
Solo quieren seguir sus fantasias.
1. For the story of Narcissus, see Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.344ff. On the flower, see Pliny, Natural History, 21.75.128: ‘there are two kinds of narcissus... The leafy one ... makes the head thick and is called narcissus from narce (numbness), not from the boy in the story’. (Cf. narcotic).
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- flowers: narcissus [25G41(NARCISSUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- plain [25H16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- spring, source of river or stream [25H211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- kneeling on both knees [31A2331] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head bent forward; bowing [31A244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking on the knees (+ variant) [31A27121(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- youth, adolescent [31D12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman [31D15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ men's clothes) [41D211(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ women's clothes) [41D211(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes) [41D233(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Narcissus, gazing in a fountain, falls in love with his own reflection; possibly the nymph Echo peeps at the scene [95A(NARCISSUS)21] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Fantasy, Caprice; 'Capriccio' (Ripa) [52A44] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52AA51(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Narcissism (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F241(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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