Emblematica : an interdisciplinary journal for emblem studies 1986 and 1987

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Vol. 1, No,

1

Spring, 1986

EMBLEMATICA Virtua fortuna comes ?

An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies AMS PRESS

EMBLEMATICA

An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies Spring,

1986

Editors Peter M. Daly Daniel Russell

AMS

Press,

Inc.

New York

EMBELEMATICA ISSN

0885 968X

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essays should conform to the guidelines published in the MLA Handbook for Writers (1977 edition); authors should submit their work in duplicate and

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prints of any

tllustrations to

be published with their work. Submissions should be accompanied by return postage. Subscriptions and remittances should be sent to the publisher, AMS

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1986

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EMBLEMATICA

An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies is published twice a year, in the spring and fall. Kmblematica publishes original articles, essays, and specialized bibliographies in all areas

of emblem

studies.

In addition

it will contain

review

articles,

reviews, research reports (work in progress, including theses, conference feports and abstracts of completed theses), notes and queries, notices (forthcoming conferences and publications), and various types of documentation.

Editors Peter M. Daly

Daniel S. Russell

McGill University Department of German 1001 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, PQ Canada H3A

Department of French and Italian University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 U.S. A.

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Advisory Board Jan Bialostocki

John Rupert Martin

Barbara C. Bowen

Karel Porteman

Warsaw

University

of Illinois,

Princeton University

Urbana-

Champaign August Buck

Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

Thomas P. Roche, Jr. Princeton University

Marburg and Wolfenbiittel Wolfgang Harms

John M. Steadman University of California, Riverside

Munich

J.B. Trapp

The Warburg Institute, London

Editorial Board Virginia W. Callahan

Agnes Sherman

Pedro F. Campa

Egon Verheyen

Howard University, emerita University of Tennessee, nooga

Bernhard F. Scholz Ruksunwversiteit Utrecht

Chatta-

Princeton University The Johns Hopkins University

Alan Young Acadia University

EMBLEMATICA AnInternational Journal of Emblem Studies

Volume 1, Number 1

Spring, 1986

Preface

Xi

Articles

John Manning Continental Emblem Books in Sixteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Sloane MS. 3794

1

Michael Bath Weeping Stags and Melancholy Lovers: The Iconography of As You Like It, U, 1

13

Mason Tung From Natural History to Emblem: A Study of Peacham9s Use of Camerarius9s Symbola et Emblemata

53

Documentation Daniel Russell Two Seventeenth-Century French Treatises

on the Art of the Device

79

Bibliography Alan R. Young

Facsimiles, Microform Reproductions,

and Modern Editions of Emblem Books

109

Review

and Criticism

Peter M. Daly Directions in Emblem Research 4 Past and Present

159

Reviews

M. T. Jones-Davies, ed., Emblémes et devises au temps de

la

Renaissance, by Barbara C. Bowen

F. W.G. Leeman, Alciatus9

Emblemata.

voorbeelden, by Bernhard F. Scholz

Denkbeelden en

P.C. Hooft, et al., Emblemata amatoria, ed. Karel Porteman,

by Lia van Gemert

175 178 185

Research Reports, Notes, Queries, and Notices

Research Reports William S. Heckscher and Agnes B. Sherman

The Emblem Project at the Princeton University Library

Thomas McGeary and N. Frederick Nash The Emblem Book Cataloguing Project at the University of Illinois

G. Richard Dimler, S. J.

191

194

The Jesuit Emblem Handbook: A Report 198 Peter M. Daly and Alan R. Young The German Diary of Johann Georg Dehn-Rotfelser (1611): A Unique Source of Information on English Impresas 205 Notes and Queries John Manning Alciati and Philostratus9s Icones Queries and Notices

Forthcoming Conferences

207 211 212

Preface The group of scholars who constitute the editorial board of Emblematica has established this new journal to fill several perceived needs.

readers journals emblem have in

First, we have

all experienced,

as we

are sure many

of our

have too, the difficulty of publishing work on emblems in that are operated along strictly disciplinary lines. Second, studies are currently receiving more attention than they ever the past. Not only is interest growing rapidly in the emblem

and its role in Renaissance culture, but emblem

studies are also un-

dergoing a change in direction as scholars begin to use the tools of semiotics and other new critical methodologies to analyze the emblem or use emblem literature in explaining structures larger than an isolated image or iconographical motif. Finally, perhaps the most important reason for creating a journal of this sort is the clear need for some kind of clearinghouse for bibliographical updating, notes and queries in a field that is so poorly known and so vast in its interdisciplinary and intercultural ramifications. Emblems have no disciplinary home; so while it is easy to discover what has been written about Luther, or Montaigne, or Breughel9s engravings, it is much less so to discover

what has been written about Italian emblems or emblem theory.

To help scholars overcome the problems peculiar to emblem studies

in the most efficient way possible, we have, then, created

Emblema-

tica to serve as a forum for researchers working in the field, and as a clearinghouse for information about progress and problems in em-

blem studies. To that end, we will be publishing, in addition to essays, various kinds of documentation, reviews and review articles, bib-

liography, notes and queries, research and conference reports, and notices of forthcoming conferences and publications. In the area of bibliography, especially, we hope to create a sharper picture of the field by providing more complete listings of emblem hooks, both printed and manuscript, more detailed descriptions of editions, and better indications of their location than have heretofore been available, and to the same end, we also intend to build upon the work of Henkel and Schone in the area of secondary bibliography. Emblematica will be open to studies originating in any of the humanistic disciplines 4 literary studies, art history, intellectual history, etc.4and to studies utilizing any critical approach or method-

EMIBLEMATICA

ology with rigor.

The determining criterion in our selection of articles

for publication will be their contribution to the better understanding

of the field or some part of it. For the enterprise to be a success, that is, for the journal to be truly

useful to anyone working with emblems, we shall need the support of all scholars working with emblems. This support should take the form of all sorts of submissions: articles, notes and queries, and short,

unpublished

or little known,

bibliographical

discoveries

and

pieces

of documentation

suggestions

for reviews

as well

as

or review

articles. Support should also take the form of subscriptions either by yourselves or by the libraries you work in; it is especially important

that you urge your library to subscribe to Emblematica. By working together, we should be able to avoid duplicating work already done, or currently being done by colleagues, and make progress in the field

come more rapidly. a success.

If that does happen,

Emblematica will have been

TE HE SE IE OK I 2H A Ee He OE EE OK OK OK

The publication of this inaugural issue of Emblematica would not have been possible without the help and support of many colleagues and institutions.

First, the editors would like to thank certain facul-

ties of their home institutions: the Faculties Studies and Research at McGill University, and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh support as well as various sorts of support in

of Arts and of Graduate and the Faculty of Arts for basic administrative kind for the preparation

of this first issue. At the University of Pittsburgh, where cameraready copy was computer-processed on a Xerox 8010 system, the editors are especially grateful to Prof. Michael Spring of the Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science and Prof. Bruce Stiehm,

editor of Hispanic Linguistics, for their patient guidance in the preparation of our formatting protocols within the context of Prof. Spring9s

electronic publishing project under the Xerox University Grants Program. Finally, our work would have been more arduous without the

help of colleagues and students who have entered the text and done much of the proofreading; among them, we would like especially to thank Catharine Randall of the University of Pittsburgh. PMD DR

Continental Emblem

Books in

Sixteenth-Century England:

The Evidence of Sloane MS. 3794 JOHN

MANNING

The Queen9s University of Belfast

Thomas Palmer9s emblematic manuscript, Two hundred poosees (British Library Sloane MS. 3794) is probably the first emblem book in English.! The manuscript is dedicated to