Section: ARBORES (Trees). View all emblems in this section.
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Buxus.
The box-tree
Perpetuò viridis, crispoque cacumine buxus,
Unde est disparibus fistula fasta [=facta]
modis,[1]
Delitiis apta est teneris, & amantibus arbor.
Pallor inest illi, pallet & omnis amans.[2]
The box-tree is evergreen, with crinkly shoots. From it was made the pipe with its variously pitched notes. It is a tree appropriate to tender delights and to lovers. Box-wood is pale and so is every lover.
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- shrubs: box (+ plants used symbolically) [25G31(BOX)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- lovers; courting, flirting [33C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- panpipes [48C7353] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere', 'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B1(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Section: LES ARBRES. View all emblems in this section.
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Le Morier.[1]
Consommé, & finy L’hyver, lors le
Morier, apres les aultres grandz arbres,
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commence à jecter ses fleurs, & germes, hors
les dangiers des froidures, & gelées, Ainsi
faict le sage, qui ne s’advance point en tous
affaires, avant qu’il soit temps, & ne hazarde
rien, à dangier, mais au plus seur. Parquoy,
il est nommé en Grec Moros par sens cont-
raire, Car Μωρος en Grec est à dire fol: &
il est sage, qui ne gecte point sa fleur, & son
fruyct, que tout le peril d’hyver ne soit con
sommé.
1. The woodcut here is a fairly close, laterally inverted, copy of that used in the 1549 French edition.
2. Reference to a supposed ‘etymology by opposites’: Latin morus ‘mulberry’ was equated with Greek μῶρος ‘fool’, but the tree was considered wise: see note 2.
3. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.25.102: ‘the mulberry is the last of domesticated trees to shoot, and only does so when the frosts are over; for that reason it is called the wisest of trees’.
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- winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) [23D41] Search | Browse Iconclass
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