PICTORIAL SYMBOLS
Reference – Texts – Digitised Editions – Library Holdings
Portal to online emblems
From the Glasgow University Centre for Emblem Studies
Emblems related websitesFrom the Society for Emblem StudiesFaith and FortuneWebsite of an exhibition at the Bruggemuseum on Pilgrims badges and insignae, the ancestors of imprese as hat decorations.The Study and Digitisation of Italian Emblems
Digitised Editions from the Warburg Institute Library
Alciati project
Latin and English versions of the `Emblemata' as well as the illustrations from the editions of 1531, 1534, and 1546, source material from the Greek Anthology, Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (1586), and direct links for particular emblems in the French edition of Lefevre now on line at the Glasgow University Emblem Website. All this material is linked through the commentaries for each emblem in Alciato, where appropriate. There is also a list of emblems in Thomas Palmer's Two Hundred Poosees (a manuscript emblem book of c1566)
Emblem Project Utrecht
Dutch Love Emblems of the Seventeenth Century
English Emblem Book Project
English emblem books digitized by Penn State University in the United States. The volumes digitized range from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
From Glasgow University Library:
Alciati/Lefevre http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/SM23B/, Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1536.
Alciati/Aneau http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/SM33/, Lyons: Macé Bonhomme, 1549.