1.1 View of Nürnberg from Hartmann Schedel, Das Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten (Nürnberg, Koberger: 1493), ff. XCIXv–C. VAULT oversize Inc 2086, Newberry Library, Chicago 3
1.2 Printed Festina Lente emblem from Georg Rem and Peter Isselburg, Emblemata Politica (Nürnberg, Isselburg: 1617) in the “Inscriptiones. …” VAULT Wing MS 279, Newberry Library, Chicago, scan 134 6
2.1 Title page, Michael Rötenbeck, “Inscriptiones picturæ et emblemata …”, Vault Wing MS 279, Newberry Library, Chicago 15
2.2 A-B Internal title page for the manuscript “Emblemata Politica,” Vault Wing MS 279, Newberry Library, Chicago opening, scan 74–75. 16
2.3 A-B Internal title page for the printed Emblemata Politica, opening, scan 108–109. 21
2.4 Albrecht Dürer and Willibald Pirckheimer, The Triumphal Chariot of Emperor Maximilian I (1522). Woodcut. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. This is one of eight joined pages representing the triumphal chariot. The entire allegory was painted onto the north wall of the Great Hall of the Nürnberg town hall 23
2.5 Binding and spine of “Inscriptiones picturæ et emblemata,” Vault Wing MS 279, Newberry Library, Chicago. Courtesy of author 24
2.6 Heinrich Siegfried Roedenbeck’s inscription inside his copy of the Emblemata Politica. Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, Shelfmark: Mel Nor. 143. Courtesy of author 26
2.7 Hans Troschel, portrait of Michael Rötenbeck (dated 1623–1628). Engraving, 195 × 120. Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, HTroschel AB 3.15. Courtesy of the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett, HAB and HAUM. http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=h-troschel-ab3-0015 27
2.8 Lucas Kilian, portrait of Georg Rem (Remus) (1623). Engraving, 211 × 121. Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, LKilian AB 3.255. Courtesy of the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett, HAB and HAUM. http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=l-kilian-ab3-0255 35
2.9 [Georg Rem], Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis (Nürnberg, Wagenmann: 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek. http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/19-eth-1s/start.htm 38
2.10 Georg Rem’s dedication to Herzog August of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis (Nürnberg, Wagenmann: 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek. http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/19-eth-1s/start.htm 40
2.11 Lucas Kilian, portrait of Duke August with verses by Georg Rem (dated 1630, likely ca. 1625). Engraving, 218 × 136. Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, LKilian AB 3.56. Courtesy of the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett, HAB and HAUM. http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=l-kilian-ab3-0056 41
2.12 Lucas Kilian, portrait of Duchess Clara Maria with verses by Georg Rem (dated 1621). Engraving, 204 × 135. Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, LKilian AB 3.331. Courtesy of the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett, HAB and HAUM. http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=l-kilian-ab3-0331 42
2.13 Johann Carll, entry dated 17 May 1617 into the album amicorum of Caspar Prasch, depicting Rem and Isselburg’s Emblem 14, “Vtroque Clarescere Pulchrum.” Courtesy of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Library Digital Collections, Ms. 2194. Available at: urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-bv046443254-7 47
2.14 Michael Rötenbeck, “Collecanta” of inscriptions volumes I–V. Nürnberg, Library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Courtesy of author 51
2.15 Michael Rötenbeck, Original spine of Volume I with title of his “Monumenta et inscriptiones, quae in templis D. Sebaldi …”. Nürnberg, Library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Courtesy of author 52
3.1 Nürnberg’s City Hall viewed from the northwest. Courtesy of author 62
3.2 Wenzel Hollar, Plan of Nuremberg (1657). Etching. A—City Hall; B—St. Sebaldus; C—Hauptmarkt; D—Castle; E—St. Lorenz; F—Frauentor. Courtesy of author 64
3.3 Anonymous, West Front of the Nuremberg City Hall and adjoining Patrician Houses (before 1616). Drawing. Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg 65
3.4 Exterior of the Ratsstube and east façade of the Great Hall. Courtesy of author 66
3.5 Georg Christoph Wilder, View of the Southeast Corner of the Nuremberg City Hall (1829). Watercolor. Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg 68
3.6 Anonymous Nürnberg artist, Design related to the East Façade Decorations of the Nuremberg City Hall (ca.1530). Watercolor. Albertina Museum, Vienna. Courtesy of the Albertina Museum 70
3.7 East façade of the Great Hall. Courtesy of author 72
3.8 Anonymous Nürnberg artist, Design related to the South Façade Decorations of the Nuremberg City Hall (ca. 1530). Watercolor. Albertina Museum, Vienna. Courtesy of the Albertina Museum 73
3.9 South façade of the Great Hall. Courtesy of author 73
3.10 Anonymous Nürnberg artist, Design related to the West Façade Decorations of the Nuremberg City Hall (ca. 1530). Watercolor. Albertina Museum, Vienna. Courtesy of the Albertina Museum 75
3.11 Elias Holl, Augsburg City Hall (1614–18). Courtesy of author 77
3.12 Jakob Wolff the Younger, Unexecuted Design for the New West Façade of the City Hall (1615–1616). Drawing. Fembohaus, Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg (on loan from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg). Courtesy of the Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg 78
3.13 West and south façades of the Great Hall. Courtesy of author 79
3.14 Johann Troschel (after Lorenz Strauch), West Façade of the City Hall (1621). Engraving. Courtesy of author 79
3.15 The three portals of the City Hall’s west façade. Courtesy of author 80
3.16 Jakob Wolff the Younger (design) and Georg Holdermann (model), Hieronymus Berckhaussen (cast), Medal Commemorating the Laying of the Cornerstone of the New Construction of the Nuremberg City Hall, April 5, 1619 (1619). Silver medal, obverse and reverse. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Jürgen Musolf 81
3.17 Joachim Toppmann (after Christoph Jamnitzer), Justice and Prudence (1616–1617). Sandstone sculpture, central portal of the west façade. Courtesy of author 84
3.18 Hans Krumper, Justice and Prudence (ca. 1614–1616). Bronze sculptures, west façade of the Residenz, Munich. Courtesy of author 84
3.19 Albrecht Dürer, Imperial and Nuremberg Coats of Arms, in Reformacion der Stadt Nüremberg (Nürnberg, Friedrich Peypus: 1521), folio AA 1 verso. Woodcut. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919 86
3.20 Monogrammist MS, Der Stat Nürmberg verneute Reformation (Nürnberg, Valentin Geissler: 1564). Woodcut. Courtesy of author 88
3.21 Valentin Maler, Allegory of Civic Government (Wunschmedaille zu Ehren der Stadt) (1585). Silver medal. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum/Monika Runge 89
3.22 Valentin Maler, Allegory of Civic Government (Wunschmedaille zu Ehren der Stadt) (1593). Silver medal, obverse and reverse. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum/Georg Janssen 90
3.23 Leonhard Kern and assistants (after Christoph Jamnitzer), Ninus and Cyrus the Great (1617). Sandstone sculpture, north portal of the west façade. Courtesy of author 92
3.24 Leonhard Kern and assistants (after Christoph Jamnitzer), Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar (1617). Sandstone sculpture, south portal of the west façade. Courtesy of author 92
3.25 Albrecht Dürer, Philosophy, in Conrad Celtis, Quatuor Libri Amorum (Nürnberg, Sodalitas Celtica: 1502), folio A 6 verso. Woodcut. Courtesy of author 93
3.26 Georg Holdermann, The Septemvirn of the Nuremberg City Council for 1625–27 (1625). Wax relief. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum/Georg Janssen 95
3.27 Johann Adam Delsenbach, The Nuremberg City Hall on the Occasion of the Inaugural Visit of Emperor Charles VI on 18 January 1712, in Delsenbach’s Nürnbergischer Prospecten. Erster Theil. Gezeichnet u[nd] in Kupfer gebracht von I.A. Delsenbach (Nürnberg: 1715). Engraving. Courtesy of the Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg 97
3.28 Georg Christoph Eimmart and Jakob Sandrart, Procession of the Nuremberg Militia August 28, 1671 (1671). Etching. Courtesy of author 98
3.29 Wolfgang Kilian (after Joachim von Sandrart), The Nuremberg Peace Banquet on 25 September 1649 (ca. 1649). Colored engraving. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. Courtesy of the Deutsches Historisches Museum/A. Psille 99
3.30 Anonymous, Swedish Lion (1649). Wood. Fembohaus, Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg. Courtesy of author 100
3.31 Anonymous German artist, The Swedish Lion dispensing Wine to the Crowd outside the City Hall on September 25, 1649 (ca. 1651). Engraving. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. Courtesy of the Deutsches Historisches Museum/A. Psille 101
4.1 Albrecht Dürer, Von buolschafft. Sebastian Brant, Das Narren schyff (Basel, Johann Bergmann von Olpe: 1494). Woodcut, 16.4 × 10.5 cm. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 121, fol. cv 105
4.2 Albrecht Dürer, Philosophia. Konrad Celtis, Quatuor libri amorum (Nürnberg, Sodalitas Celtica: 1502). Woodcut, 21.6 × 15 cm. Nürnberg: Bibliothek der Albrecht-Dürerhaus-Stiftung, 1987-001 106
4.3 Anonymus: Three hieroglyphs. Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, Aldus Manutius: 1499), n. p. Woodcut. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 515 107
4.4 Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I (1514). 24 × 18.5 cm. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943 (43.106.1). Image C The Metropolitan Museum of Art 110
4.5 Albrecht Dürer, Misterium in ancient Egyptian characters (1514/17). Woodcut. Detail from: Triumphal Arch for Emperor Maximilian I (from Giehlow, Hieroglyphenkunde 1915, p. 1) 112
4.6 Albrecht Dürer, Emblematic Details from the Triumphal Chariot for Emperor Maximilian I (1522). Woodcut. Nürnberg: Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Nürnberg, GrA #-1. Detail, lower right: “Cor regis in manu dei est” Detail, above right: “Quod in coelis sol hoc in terra caesar” 114
5.1 Triumphal Arch for Matthias (1612). Peter Isselburg (engraver) and Frederik van Valckenborch (inventor), Ehrenpforte des Kaisers Mathias (1612). Engraving, 665 × 459. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (PIsselburg AB 2.49). Digital version released under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license by Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig 120
5.2 Triumphal Arch Charles V (1541). Peter Flötner, Ein vngeheuerliche verzeichnus oder Contrafactur der Ehren porten/ wie die selbig mit irem maßwerck/ vnd Seulen/ auff Corintische art/ dem Großmechtigsten Keyser Karoln dem fünfften/ seiner keyserlichen Maiestat ankunfft/ vnd einreyten zu Nürnberg/ am 16. Tag Februarij/ des 1541 jars beschehen (Frankfurt am Main, Christian Engenolph: 1541). Woodcut, 391 × 494. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nr. 640-115. Photo: Dietmar Katz. Public Domain 121
5.3 Triumphal Arch for Maximilian II (1570). Jost Amman (Radierung), E. zum Einzug Maximilians II. in Nürnberg, 7. 6. 1570. II. Zust., ca. 40 × 50 cm (Becker Nr. 110). Entwerfender Künstler unbekannt. Engraving, 39.6 × 54.4. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg (Inv.-Nr. HB231_a) 122
5.4 Triumphal Arch for Leopold I (1658). Paulus Fürst (printer) and P. Troschel (engraver), Iconographia Arcus Triumphalis Invictissimo Caesari, Ac Dom: Dom: Leopoldo … A S.P.Q. Noribergensi, Humillimo Honoris Et Obsequii Cultu Ad Auspicatissimum Eius Maiestat. Ingressum Positi. Die 616 Augusti Anno 1658. Engraving, 97.5 × 46.5. Munich, Bavarian State Library (Einbl. V,8 nw) Digital version released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. 131
5.5 Erhard Schön, Twelve Pure and Twelve Sinful Birds (1538). Woodcut (hand colored), 56.2 × 38.2. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin (Box Number: 21; Item Number: 390) 133
5.6 Hans Siebmacher, Crane. Emblem 27. Camerarius, Symbolorum et emblematum, centuriae quatuor […] (Mogvntiae : sumpt. L. Bovrgeat, typ. C. Kuchleri, 1668). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Duke Unviersity 136
5.7 Benedikt Wurzelbauer, The Fountain of Virtues (Tugendbrunnen), the north side of the Lorenzkirche (the church of St. Lorenz), Nuremberg. 1583–89 Photo: © Ajepbah / Wikimedia Commons under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 DE license 138
5.8 The Crane and the Pelican on Matthias’ Triumphal Arch. Detail of Peter Isselburg (engraver) and Frederik van Valckenborch (inventor), Ehrenpforte des Kaisers Mathias (1612) (Fig. 5.1). Courtesy of the (Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum) Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (PIsselburg AB 2.49) 139
5.9 The Crane emblem in the Aula Magna, South wall, Western window niche, Nürnberg Town Hall. Fresco (Destroyed by bombing; 1944/1945). Photo: Müller und Sohn, 1943/1945. Courtesy Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Photothek 141
5.10 Crane, Emblem 38, Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, qvae est Altorffiistvdiorum juventutis exercitandorum caussâ inde ab ann. Christi CD D LXXVII usq; ad annum CD D CXVI proposita; oratiunculis eruditis & nervosis in panegyribus academicis explicate. (Nürnberg, Wagenmann: 1617), 124. Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Duke University 143
5.11 Crane, “Pro grege,” Emblem 21, Isselburg, Peter and Georg Rem. Emblemata Politica (Nürnberg 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Newberry Library 145
5.12 Frontispiece of Isselburg and Rem, Emblemata Politica In aula magna Curiæ Noribergensis depicta; Quæ sacra Virtvtvm suggerunt Monita Prvdenter administrandi Fortiterqve defendendi Rempublicam (Nürnberg, 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek 146
6.1 Georg Holdermann, panel with seven wax figures, Nürnberg (1611/1612). 47.5 × 31 cm. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. Pl.O. 2211). Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 154
6.2 Georg Schwanhardt the Elder, covered glass cup with gilded silver mountings, Nürnberg (1635). Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. Gl 291). Photo courtesy of Annette Kradisch, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 156
6.3 Detail of figure 2, emblem, “Hoc fecisse iuvat.” Photo courtesy of Annette Kradisch, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 157
6.4 Detail of figure 2, emblem, “Aetas renovetur anilis.” Photo courtesy of Annette Kradisch, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 158
6.5 Detail of figure 2, emblem, “Et floreat arida virga.” Photo courtesy of Annette Kradisch, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 159
6.6 Bottom of figure 2. Photo courtesy of Annette Kradisch, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 160
6.7 Johann Schaper, pitcher, fayence, Delft, painted in sepia enamel, Nürnberg (1663). Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmusseum (Inv. Ke 505, HG 4652 (purch. 1888, from Kirsch collection)); emblem, “Ein kvhler Trunck darbei.” Photo courtesy of Bettina Guggenmos, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 162
6.8 Detail of fig. 7, emblem, “Ein Hertz voll Lieb vnd Treuv.” Photo courtesy of Bettina Guggenmos, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 163
6.9 Detail of fig. 7, emblem, “Macht Sorg vnd Vnmvth frey.” Photo courtesy of Bettina Guggenmos, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 164
6.10 Michael Müller (Müllner), set of six cups, Nürnberg (1621). Partly gilded silver; each cup: height 12,3 cm. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. HG 11976–11982). Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 165
6.11 Silver mark of Michael Müller (Müllner). Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 166
6.12 Portrait of the surgeon Conrad Schortz (1575–1632), a guild book. Photo courtesy of Silvia Glaser, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 168
6.13 Cup 1 (inv. HG 11980), the first emblem with the inscriptio: “Vah! Spe lactaris inani” and the subscriptio: “Wan Alchimistereÿ grath wol/ Als dan gsäät geldt frücht bringen sol.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 170
6.14 Cup 1 (inv. HG 11980), the second emblem with the inscriptio: “Si tangis, surgit: et urit” and the subscriptio: “Wer im feür nachzustürn anfengt, Gmeinglich sein lohn darfür empfengt.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 174
6.15 Cup 1 (inv. HG 11980), the third emblem with the inscriptio: “Cave. Si capiere, manebis” and the subscriptio: “Hütt dich, damit nicht wirst gefangn, Kombst einmal nein, so bleibst behangn.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 172
6.16 Cup 2 (inv. HG 11979), the first emblem with the inscriptio: “Cur me non rexeris apte” and the subscriptio: “Wer nicht wohl Kann regirn sein Pferd, Kompt von demselben bald zur Erd.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janssen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 173
6.17 Cup 2 (inv. HG 11979), the second emblem with the inscriptio “Patientia laesa furor sit” and the subscriptio: “Ein frombs thier, wans erzörnt, auch wütt, ein Würmblein Krümbt sich, wann mans tritt.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janssen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 174
6.18 Cup 2 (inv. HG 11979), the third emblem with the inscriptio: “Melius, si tundus olebit” and the subscriptio: “Wanns gwürtz gestoßen wird, starck reücht, Also Geduld im Creütz hell leücht.” Photo courtesy of Georg Janssen, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. Image courtesy of Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 175
7.1 Frontispiece from Peter Isselburg and Georg Rem, Emblemata Politica in aula magna Curiae Noribergensis depicta […] (Nürnberg, Isselburg: 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 180
7.2 Emblem 22 from Peter Isselburg and Georg Rem, Emblemata Politica in aula magna Curiae Noribergensis depicta […] (Nürnberg, Isselburg: 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 183
7.3 Emblem 37 from Jakob von Bruck-Angermundt, Emblemata moralia et bellica (Strasbourg, Heyden: 1616). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 187
7.4 Emblem 16 from Jakob von Bruck-Angermundt, Emblemata Politica: Quibus ea, quæ ad principatum spectant, breviter demonstrantur, singuloru[m] verò explicatio fusius proponitur […] (Strasbourg, Jacob ab Heyden: 1618). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 188
7.5 Emblem 16 from Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria (Frankfurt am Main, Johann Theodor de Bry: 1619). Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (M: QuN 202.1 (1)) 192
8.1 Title Page, Emblemata Politca, Georg Rem and Peter Isselburg (Nürnberg, 1617). Munich, Bavarian State Library, Res. 4° L. eleg. m. 55 213
8.2 Title Page, Emblemata curalia, Johann Conrad Rhumelius (Nürnberg, 1629). Nürnberg, City Library, Will I 1041 214
8.3 Wax relief of Georg IV. Volckamer (ca. 1630). Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Pl. O. 781. Photo courtesy of Georg Janßen 216
8.4 Dedication Emblemata curalia, Johann Conrad Rhumelius (Nürnberg, 1629). Nürnberg, City Library, Will I 1041 218
9.1 Portrait of Siegmund Jakob Apin, ca. 1722 © The Trustees of the British Museum 249
9.2 Portrait of Georg Rem, Apin, Vitae et effigies procancellarium Academiae Altorfinae (Nürnberg, Tauber: 1721). I 747 .032 Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago 253
10.1 Palm Readers, in Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles, Complexion/ Natur || Vnd Eigenschafft Eines Yeden Menschen || Zu Erfaren/ Auch Seiner Geburt Stund Vnnd Zeychen/|| Dardurch Jm All Sein Glück Vnnd Vnfal/ so Jm in || Der Zeyt Seyns Lebens Begegnen Wirt/ Er-||öffnet Mag Werden/ … || Der Sieben Planeten Sampt Den Zwölff Heimli=||schen Zeichen Wirckung in Des Menschen Geburt/|| Clerlich Beschrieben.|| … || (Mainz, Peter Jordan: 1534), 1v. Courtesy Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 263
10.2 Cocles, Phisonomi und Chiromanci (Strasbourg, Cammerlander: 1540), fol xlix. Courtesy Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 265
10.3 Observers, in Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles, Complexion/ Natur || Vnd Eigenschafft Eines Yeden Menschen || Zu Erfaren/ Auch Seiner Geburt Stund Vnnd Zeychen/|| Dardurch Jm All Sein Glück Vnnd Vnfal/ so Jm in || Der Zeyt Seyns Lebens Begegnen Wirt/ Er-||öffnet Mag Werden/ … || Der Sieben Planeten Sampt Den Zwölff Heimli=||schen Zeichen Wirckung in Des Menschen Geburt/|| Clerlich Beschrieben.|| … || (Mainz, Peter Jordan: 1534), 1r. Courtesy Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 267
10.4 Stephan Fridolin et al., Schatzbehalter oder Schrein der wahren Reichtümer des Heils und der ewigen Seligkeit (Nürnberg, Anton Koberger: 1491). Courtesy of Heidelberg University Library 269
10.5 Master WR, Benedictus Rughalm, Liber Quodlibetarius, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, MS.B 200, f. 81r. Courtesy of Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg 273
10.6 Master WR, Benedictus Rughalm, Liber Quodlibetarius, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, MS.B 200, f. 82v. Courtesy of Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg 275
10.7 Chins (from section beginning on previous page), in Johannes Indagine, Die Kunst der Chiromantzey … Physiognomey … Natürlichen Astrologey … Complexion eines yegklichen menschens (Strasbourg, Schott: 1540), fol. lxviii. Courtesy Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 279
10.8 Noses, including those of Maximilian and Xerxes, in Johannes ab Indagine, Chyromantia … Enn dit boec leert van drie naturlike consten als phisiognomia, astrologia naturalis, chiromantia …(Utrecht, Jan Berntsz: 1536), 89r. Courtesy US National Library of Medicine 281
10.9 Bartolomeo Cocles, Ein kurtzer Bericht der gantzen Phisionomey unnd Ciromancy (Strasbourg, Johannes Albrecht: 1534). Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek (A:565.2 Quod). Courtesy Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel 283
10.10 Master WR, Benedictus Rughalm, Liber Quodlibetarius, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, MS.B 200, f. 79v–80r. Courtesy of Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg 283
10.11 Tadeas Hajek z Hajku, Thaddaei Hagecii ab Hagek doctoris medici, Aphorismorum metoposcopicorum libellus vnus (Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel: 1584). Courtesy of the National Central Library of Florence 285
10.12 Ludovicus Pruthenus, Trilogium animae (Nürnberg, Koberger: 1498) Chapter XXIII, sig. E.i. Courtesy of Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. Creative Commons Public Domain. http://tudigit.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/show/inc-iii-96/0153 287
11.1 Peter Isselburg, “Sic Orbis iter,” Emblem 7 of Isselberg Peter – Remus Georg, Emblematica Politica […] (Nürnberg, Peter Isselburg: 1617). Courtesy of Emblematica Online, Newbery Library, Chicago. 294
11.2 Howard Helmick, “The Bookworm” (19th century). Oil on canvas, 45 × 54 cm. Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland 295
11.3 Virtual collage of screen captures connected to Emblem 7 of Emblemata Politica. These digital surrogates represent various physical and online resources (all screen captures retrieved 15 August 2018) 297
11.4 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Homepage (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018) 299
11.5 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Book Search Options display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Books can be searched for in Emblematica Online by selected bibliographic properties; values for up to 3 properties can be specified in a single search 301
11.6 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Search Results and Filters display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Filters (including collection source) are available to narrow search results as needed 302
11.7 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Emblem Search Options display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Individual emblems can be found using keywords, motto transcriptions, and/or Iconclass headings. Note that Iconclass searching is multilingual in English, French, German, and Italian 303
11.8 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Emblem Search Results display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Emblem search results grid shows pictura and motto for each emblem found; results can be further filtered using bibliographic attributes of each emblem’s respective book 304
11.9 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Emblem Book Details display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Emblem book descriptions include source collection and links to those emblems (if any) within the volume that have been individually identified and described 305
11.10 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Emblem Details display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Emblem descriptions include link to parent book as well as links to higher resolution views of emblem and pictura 306
11.11 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Author Knowledge Panel display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Links and information about authors and others involved in the creation of an emblem book are retrieved in real time from LOD sources to provide users with context and connections 308
11.12 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Iconclass Browse display (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Users can follow parent-child term relationships in the Iconclass vocabulary to develop queries and/or search other repositories that use Iconclass to classify their content 309
11.13 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Iconclass Browse sequence (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). Users can start with an Iconclass descriptor assigned to one emblem in the corpus, and browse the hierarchy for Iconclass terms that connect them to other emblems in the corpus 309
11.14 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, Emblematica Online Enhanced Author Knowledge Panel display, experimental (screen capture, retrieved 15 August 2018). The enhanced “more info” dialog box currently in development gives users more information and more links; all information displayed in this box, other than the title of the box, is retrieved in real-time from external LOD services (i.e., via RDF and SPARQL endpoints) 311