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10. The Life of the Magdalen,
anonymous Italian woodcut,
(offer Ch. Baussay, Sainte
Madeleine, op. cit.)
Magdalen’s readiness to purge her sins away. According to emblem books of the time, hair
combing was identified with the process of “combing the soul”, or sorting out consciousness, leading
to self awareness. Vischer included an image of a comb accompanied by the lemmat Purgat et Ornat,
applying it to the concept of good government (A. Roemers Visscher, Zinne-Poppen, t’Amsterdam
1620, I, no 9), while Picinelli speaks about the comb as a symbol of a lively mind able to
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