Sieve

Colophon image. From Matthæus Gribaldus Mopha, De methodo et ratione studendi (Lyon: Antonius Vincentius, 1544).

“This [the sun] bears away the shadows of the night; that [a book] the shadows of the heart”. Colophon image from: Vossius, De philosophia et philosophorum sectis (The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1658).

“Mingling the pleasant with the useful”. From: G. F. Meier, Vernunftlehre (Halle: Johann Justin Gebauer, 1752).

From Gaspar Contarini, Opera (Paris: Sebastianus Nivellius, 1571).

“What will love not do?” Colophon image from: Proclus, Elementa theologica, trans. Francesco Patrizi (Ferrara, 1583). On the pelican’s sacrificing itself for its offspring, see 12 July.

From: B. Keckermann. Operum omnium quae extant tomi duo. Tomus I. Includes: Præcognita philosophiæ, Systema physica … metaphysica compendium. Geneva: Petrus Aubertus, 1614.

Colophon image. From: Reinhardus Lorichius Hadarmardius, De institutione principum loci communes (Frankfurt: Chr. Egenolphus, s.d.).

“In me is death, in me is life”. From: Franciscus Patritius, Compendiosa epitome commentariorum… (Paris, 1574). (The pelican was thought to pierce its own breast to nourish its young.)

From: Joannes Poncius (John Ponce). Philosophiæ ad mentem Scoti cursus integer… [4th ed.] Lyon, 1659

Colophon image. From Le tombeau de Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre (Paris: Michel Fezandat, Robert Granjon, 1551).

Colophon image. From: Blaise de Vigenère, Traité du feu et du sel. Paris: Veuve L’Angelier, 1618.

Colophon image. From Jean Leclerc, De l’incrédulité (Amsterdam, 1722).