Iconologia
Translated by Pierce Tempest and Isaac Fuller
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Fig, I. Abondanza : T L E N T Y.
Eeautiful Woman crownd with a Garland, in a green Gown /\ cmbroider’d; with a CormcofU in her Hand. She is no leCs amiable for her Beauty, than her Contrary, iVant, is deformd and odious.
The Garland denotes Chcarfulncfs, and the Mirth that do infeparably iccompany her. The Ccrnucofia is an Emblem of the Affluence of all things neccfl’ary to human Life.
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About this edition
- The words
- Pierce Tempest and Isaac Fuller's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Specks on the scanned copy's cover and endpapers, read as characters by the OCR (5 blocks)
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
- The library's mark on the scanned copy (“Uiuc”)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- The work's title line over the first page of emblems (“ICONOLOGIA.”)
- Pictures and their captions
- Specks on the blank end pages of the scan (5 blocks)
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 4 places
- A speck on the page, read by the OCR as “r”
- A speck on the page, read by the OCR as “/”