
Insignia Mercurii quid?
What are the insignia of Mercury?
Ad Adrianum Turnebum.[1]
Cy du messager des Dieux
Mercure l’industrieux Link to an image of this page [I2r p131]Les enseignes je veux dire,
Le coq, le cancre, & le chien,
La bourse pleine de bien,
Le caducee & la lyre,
Les aisles & le bourdon,
Et le bouc au long menton,
Pour monstrer quel il peut estre
Prompt d’esprit & bien parlant,
Bon larron & vigilant,
Apte pour bien tout cognoistre.
Le bouc le faict bien disant,
Puis la lyre & le serpent
Luy monstrent la paix aimee.
Il denote par le chien
Que garder il se faut bien
De parler à la volee.
La balance monstre aussi
Qu’il faut avoir le soucy
De faire esgalle justice,
Le cousteau, qu’il ne faut pas
Faire advancer le trespas:
Ou d’un traistre avoir le vice.
On s’ayde du caquet
Pour plaider en un parquet,
Et du glaive l’on s’ayde
Encontre les mals-vivans,
Les voleurs & les brigans,
Et encontre l’homicide.
L’on peut aussi r’apporter Link to an image of this page [I2v p132]Ces choses, pour adapter
Aux enfans de la science.
Aussi le monstres tu bien
A ceux qui ont le bien
D’entendre ton eloquence.
1. Adrien Turnèbe (Turnebus, Tournebus), French philologist, hellenist, printer (d. 1565).
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- adult man (+ nude human being) [31D14(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- animals (+ wings of an animal) [25F(+342):25F(+154)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding something) [31A2515(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something) [31A2513(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(COCK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(DOG)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(HE-GOAT)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(HERPE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(PETASUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(PURSE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(SCALES)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(TALARIA)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(WASP)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) [92B58(WINGS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Mercury (with NAME) (+ variant) [92B58(CRAB)(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- birds (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F3(+53):25F(+151)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bridge in city across river, canal, etc. [25I1451] Search | Browse Iconclass
- caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) [92B58(CADUCEUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.) (+ male animal) [34B232(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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