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Antigrapheus, sive, Conscientia hominis : coram Serenissimo Maximiliano Electore Bavaro

Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638 · 1655 · Coloniae Agrippinae : Apud Jodocum Kalcovium et Socios · 22 pictures

Antigrapheus, sive, Conscientia hominis is a 1655 Latin devotional treatise by the Jesuit Jeremias Drexel, printed in Cologne for a Bavarian audience. Its engraved plates are emblematic, with each folio pairing a moral image with a Latin motto. For designers, the plates offer dense, finely hatched engraving with clear symbolic objects such as books, owls, and flames that can be reused as allegory.

Christian art and symbolism

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