Minverva Britanna 137
 

 

THERE EXISTS NO PICTURE FROM THE MINERVA BRITANNA
ON THIS PARTICULAR EMBLEM
 

 

British Library, MS Harl. 6855. Art 13, created in 1604, derived from the second part of King James I’s Basilikon Doron:

Minerva Britanna 137

Latin Motto: The majesty of kings [which is] not to be diminished

Epigram: Sacred is the trust of kings, and sacred is also your place, O poets. Spare the sceptre-bearers; piss far away, O you uninitiated! I portray my snakes; wounded majesty rises; may it not undergo your mockery, O fickle populace!

Sources: Basilikon Doron: Lib. 1. page 32...Here would I also ache another crime to be unpardonable. It is then the false and unreverent writing or speaking of malicious men against your parents and predecessors

Derived: Ovid Remedia amoris 369; Curtius, Lib 7, 5.20; Valerius Maximus, Lib 4, 7.2

British Library, MS Royal, 12A, LXVI, created in 1610, derived from the third and final part of King James I’s Basilikon Doron

Minerva Britanna 137

Latin Motto: No one attacks me unpunished

Epigram: Sacred is the trust of kings, and sacred is also your place, O poets. Spare the sceptre-bearers; piss far away, O you uninitiated! I portray my snakes; wounded majesty rises; Let the ill-counselling commoners not come near your nose

Sources: Basilikon Doron: Lib 2. page 32...Here would I also ache another crime to be unpardonable. It is then the false and unreverent writing or speaking of malicious men against your parents and predecessors

Derived: Seneca. Herculeus furens, 353
     
  There is no such emblem to be found in the Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry, 146, created in 1603 nor in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS v.b45, created in 1621/22.
     
 
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