
Le clair soleil ny la torche en la main
A un aveugle en rien n’est proufitable,
Le livre ouvert aussi tient il en vain:
Car il ne sait si c’est mensonge ou fable.
Cecy vous soit donques à tous notable,
Qu’à l’oeil obscur tout est obscurité.
L’ignorant donc ne doit estre croyable:
Car il ne voit goutte à la verité.

RES
OMNES
CAECIS
SUNT
TENE
BRAE
To the blind, all things are dark
xxxvi.
Quid faculam tibi laeva, librum quid dextra revoluit?
Cùm nihil exocula cernere fronte queas.
Stulte, putas verum Sophiae tibi fulgere lumen:
Sed tua mens, Veri nescia, luce caret.
Why does your left hand hold up a torch before you, and your right a book? since you can see nothing from a head without eyes. Foolish man, you think that the true light of Wisdom will shine at you: but your mind/soul, ignorant of the Truth, is deprived of light.
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- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- artificial light [22C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- blind, blindness [31A4111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- book [49M32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' [41D27] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown [41D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- holding something «« KEY (933) TO 31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) [31A(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- light [22C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- on fire, ablaze [41B4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sun represented as face, wheel, etc. [24A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sunlight [24A8] Search | Browse Iconclass
- torch [41B32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- word [49K321] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- 'Sapientia', Wisdom; 'Sapienza divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost [11E541] Search | Browse Iconclass
- darkness [22C9] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues [11M31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) [52AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Ignorance; 'Ignoranza', 'Ignoranza di tutte le cose', 'Ignoranza in un ricco senza lettere' (Ripa) [52AA5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Misunderstanding, Incomprehension [52CC4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Truth; 'Verità' (Ripa) [52A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Wisdom; 'Sapienza', 'Sapienza humana', 'Sapienza vera' (Ripa) [52A51] Search | Browse Iconclass
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