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EMBLEME V.
Le veiller est la vie des hommes.
Au S. Viglius Zuichemus President.[1]
Veiller dessus le livre & l’heure compasser
Par la soigneuse estude est de toute la vie
Qui fuit oysiveté la meilleure partie.
L’Oubly faict les oyseus pour jamais trespasser:
Du soigneus la memoire est tousjours immortelle:
Voy donc le livre ouvert, l’horloge & la chandelle.
Notes:
1. Viglius Zuichemus (Wigle Aytta van Zwichem): Dutch statesman and jurist, prominent in the government of Margaret of Parma in the 1560s (President of the Council). Also a scholar, and friend of Erasmus (d. 1577).
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- book - MM - book open [49MM32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- candle (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B31(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cover for table, etc. [41A713] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ear of corn [47I1111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hourglass [23U22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other ornament derived from animal forms [48A9845:25F(+341)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs: wheat [25G4(WHEAT)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Alertness, Vigilance; 'Guardia', 'Vigilanza', 'Vigilanza per difendersi & oppugnare altri' (Ripa) [52A23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fame; 'Fama', 'Fama buona', 'Fama chiara' (Ripa) [59B32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- historical person (with NAME) other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (with NAME of person) [61B2(AYTTA VAN SWICHEM, Wigle van)3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Idleness; 'Otio' (Ripa) [54DD2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mortality, Extinction of Life (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58BB1(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Oblivion; 'Oblivione' (Ripa) [52AA31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the course of life symbolized [11R3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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