DOI Artikel:
Tomicka, Joanna A.: The Black Art: Typography and its allegories in emblems during the 16th-18th centuries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18947#0065
8. R van der Borcht,
Emblem "IEL LEUIA
MULTITUDINE CLAm",
ir J. Sambucus,
Emblematu...,
Antverpiae, 1 566,
woodcut,
Courtesy of the
Librarian, Glasgow
University Library
profession by way of example to convey the notion of famę. In this mstance
a winged figurę hovers above the typographer at his work carrying a tablet
with the inscription FAMA. This emblem with its motto “VEL LEUIA
MULTITUDINE CLARENT” was dedicated to Joannes Sambucus (1507-
-1568), (ill. 8), professor of the Swiss universities12 13 and renowned humanist,
who was at this time one of the most widely acclaimed typographers. In 1541
he opened a printing house at Basie which was acclaimed as the first one in
Europę devoted entirely to academic books.1' In glorifying the renowned
12 This emblem appeared in the 1566 publication with illustrations by E van der Borcht.
13 In 1569, a year after Oporin’s death, Oratio de ortu vita et obitu Johannis Oporini Basiliensis,
Typopgraphorum Germaniae principis’ by Andreas Jociscus was published in which a list
of the books published by Oporin’s publishing house is contained; F. Roth-Scholtz in his
Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria bene meritotum ab incunabilis
typographiae ad nostrausąue tempora..., Norimbergae et Aldorfii, ap haer. Joh. Dan. Tauberi,
1726-1742, added the words to Oporin’s portrait "Primum Rector Scholapatriae, deinde
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Emblem "IEL LEUIA
MULTITUDINE CLAm",
ir J. Sambucus,
Emblematu...,
Antverpiae, 1 566,
woodcut,
Courtesy of the
Librarian, Glasgow
University Library
profession by way of example to convey the notion of famę. In this mstance
a winged figurę hovers above the typographer at his work carrying a tablet
with the inscription FAMA. This emblem with its motto “VEL LEUIA
MULTITUDINE CLARENT” was dedicated to Joannes Sambucus (1507-
-1568), (ill. 8), professor of the Swiss universities12 13 and renowned humanist,
who was at this time one of the most widely acclaimed typographers. In 1541
he opened a printing house at Basie which was acclaimed as the first one in
Europę devoted entirely to academic books.1' In glorifying the renowned
12 This emblem appeared in the 1566 publication with illustrations by E van der Borcht.
13 In 1569, a year after Oporin’s death, Oratio de ortu vita et obitu Johannis Oporini Basiliensis,
Typopgraphorum Germaniae principis’ by Andreas Jociscus was published in which a list
of the books published by Oporin’s publishing house is contained; F. Roth-Scholtz in his
Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria bene meritotum ab incunabilis
typographiae ad nostrausąue tempora..., Norimbergae et Aldorfii, ap haer. Joh. Dan. Tauberi,
1726-1742, added the words to Oporin’s portrait "Primum Rector Scholapatriae, deinde
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