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These recent years have seen the development of intercultural studies and pluridisciplinary research. One of the main consequences is the growing interest for text and image relationships in the early modern age, at the crossroads of history and art history, theology, linguistics, rhetoric and emblematics. Its purposes are threefold: 1. Text and image Devoted to theoretical issues, the B.I.F. offers a necessary complement to other digital libraries built around emblem book collections (Glasgow, Urbana-Champaign, Bergamo), spirituality, history and art history in the early modern age. At the same time, it presents a large sample of material about the status of the linguistic and iconic sign in the early modern age. 2. Jesuits in the early modern age As a representative survey of Jesuit rhetoric treatises, it allows for a better knowledge of the intellectual and “literary” commitments of the Society. Presenting for the first time a sizeable amount of works of Maximilianus Sandaeus S.J. (Maximiliaan van der Sandt, 1578-1656), it will hopefully invite researchers to discover this major 17th-century Jesuit personality. 3. Books and engravings Including a fairly good number of engraved books, it offers a rich set of iconographic material in its spiritual, rhetorical and artistic contexts. For easy consultation, all books are entirely available in high quality image-mode, accompanied by three extensive indexes in text-mode: names, titles and notions/subjects. The scholar interested in book history will also find a large sample of typographic material and engravings, indexed by descriptive metadata.
As the list of scanned and posted books gradually increases, the titles of the books will appear below from where it is possible to click through to the books themselves: Hugo (Herman), De Prima scribendi Origine, et universa rei litterariae antiquitate, Antverpiae: Plantin Moretus, 1617. Richeome (Louis), Tableaux Sacrez des Figures mystiques, du Tres Auguste Sacrifice et Sacrement de l'Eucharistie, Dediez à la tres chrestienne Royne de France et de Navarre Marie de Medicis [1601], Paris: L. Sonnius, 1601. Richeome (Louis) La peinture spirituelle, ou: L'art d'admirer, aimer et louer Dieu en toutes ses oeuvres, et tirer de toutes profit salutere, Lyon: Chez Pierre Rigaud, 1611 Possevinus (Antonius), Tractatio de poesi (!) & pictura ethnica, humana & fabulosa collata cum vera, honesta & sacra, Lugduni: Pillehotte, 1594
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