Mrs. Pott's Emblem Plates Found in the British Library
Plate IV.
Comments on Plate IV.
1. Horns of a bull. MSS. Frankfort. British Museum, 318c. 1470.
2. Horns of a bull. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; unique copy, presented by Burton to the Nation. British Museum, C 45c 30. 1621.
3/5. Horns of a bull. Moliere's Works. 1682.
6. Horns of a bull, or cornucopeia, crown indistinct. Cotton, Nero vi. 132. 1632. Another in Shakespeare, 1632, and Cotton, Nero vi. 48.
7. Horns of a bull. Cotton, Nero vi. 368.
8. Horn in shield, etc. Bullock pedigree. Harl. 1393, fol. 96.
10/12. Fool's cap and fragments. Quarles' Emblems. Dyce & Forster Library, S. Kensington Museum. 1676.
13. Fool's cap. Bagford collection, fol. 29.
14. Moor's head, with bandage pushed up from the eyes. (An allusion to the efforts being made to convert the Mahommedans?) Circa 1420.
15. Twisted horns.
16. Twisted horns. Advancement of Learning. 1605.
17. Triangle, hearts. Harl. MSS., 1393, 88.
18. Shield. Account book, Zuid, Holland. British Museum, 318c. 1469-1470.
19. Shield. Document, Frankfort on the Main. British Museum, 318c. 1470.
20/21. Shield, other specimens. Dutch. 1460.
22/23. Shields. Apocalypse, Haarlem. Early 15th century.
24. Shield, heart-shaped. Letter, H. Maynard to Anthony Bacon. Tennison MSS., Lambeth. 1592.
25/26. Shield, heart-shaped. Poems of Michael Drayton. 1619.
27. Shield, heart-shaped. Letters of Sir Francis Bacon. Copies. Hatton Finch Collection.
28. Shield, heart-shaped. North's Plutarke. 1595.
29. Shield. Letter from Theodore Beza to Anthony Bacon. Tennison MSS., Lambeth. 1593.
30. Shield, heart-shaped. Letter unsigned. Cotton MSS. Nero, 229. 1590.
31/34. Shield, heart-shaped, with R C. Advancement of Learning. 1640.
32. Shield, heart-shaped. Document. Cotton, Nero vi. 180.
33. Shield, heart-shaped. De Augmentis. Holland. 1652.