Cum Apolline Christus: Personal Mottos of Humanists from the Czech Lands

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Vaculínová, Marta
Cum Apolline Christus: Personal Mottos of Humanists from the Czech Lands.
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis: Proceedings of the Seventeeth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Albacete 2018). Leiden: Brill, 2020 - (Schaffenrath, F.; Santamaría Hernández, M.; Cottier, J.), s. 610-617. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini, 17. ISBN 978-90-04-42709-9.
[International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies /17./. Albacete (ES), 29.07.2018-03.08.2018]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA16-09064S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Czech humanism * Neo-Latin emblems * adagia * symbola
Obor OECD: Specific literatures

During the work on the Companion to Central and East European Humanism, attention was paid also to the emblems (insignia) and devices (symbola) of humanists and their reflexion in the occasional poetry. Currently, a systematic list of the initials and devices is being developed, which should be applicable also to identification of the book provenance (supralibros in the form of initials or handwritten exlibris as a symbolum cephalonomaticum). The objective of this paper is the analysis of the influence of profession, social status, confession, nationality, conferred honours and values of their bearers and inventors of symbola. The most frequent sources of inspiration for symbola such as emblem books, adagia and other will also be identified. Besides preserved prints and modern inventories of the book provenance, alba amicorum are also counted as a relevant source, in which the individual device is often associated with an emblem (similarly to printed insignia or printers’ signets) and abbreviations in the form of initials occur in frequently used proverbs or sayings. Finally, different languages used in symbola will be discussed.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0310533