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Title: Sammlung geist- und sinnreicher Gedancken uber verschiedene aus der Natur, Kunst, und Wissenschafften vorgestellte Sinn-Bilder :
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Creator: Oppelt, Joannes.
Publisher: Prag : Gedruckt in der Carolo-Ferdinandeischen Universitäts-Buchdruckerey Soc. Jesu bey St. Clementz durch Jacobum Schweiger Factorn,
Date: 1749.
Physical Description: 4 pts. : ill. ; 22 cm. (4 to)
Language: ger
Notes: Issued in 1 volume.
Title-page in red and black.
Pt. 1 consists of 12 emblems, Pt. 2 of 26 emblems, Pt. 3 of 20 emblems; each emblem accompanied by an 'aria', 'madrigal, 'ode' or other additional poem.
58 full-page circular emblems with ornamental frames, 3 signed by J.C. Sysang.
Pt. 4 consists of the libretti of 4 oratorios in German: I. Tobias. II. Magdalena. III. Die obsiegende Liebe. IV. Der verlohrne Sohn.
Die obsiegende Liebe (1724) composed by Johann Georg Ernst Cajetan Lösel; music not extant (cf. Grove Music Online)
References: Praz, p. 439
Landwehr, J. German emblem books, 462.
Contributor: Sysang, Johann Christoph, 1703-1757, engraver.
Lösel, Johann Georg Ernst Cajetan, ca.1699-1750.
Subject: Emblems
Emblems, German -- 18th century.
Oratorios