Maechden-pflicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrovvven in eerbaer liefde aen-ghewesen door sinne-beelden. Officivm puellarum in castis amoribus emblemate expressum
A 1618 Dutch emblem book printed in Middelburg by Hans van der Hellen, written by Jacob Cats for young unmarried women on chaste courtship. Each page pairs a round copperplate vignette with Latin and Dutch verse, and the pictures show allegorical scenes such as a figure beside a flowering plant, a bare tree with two figures, a seated woman under a tree, and a boat in rough seas with a ship beyond. A designer might take the framed circular medallions and the terse emblem-and-motto layout as a model for compact, symbolic image panels.
