XXIV.

Biscoctvm amoris.

Sap. 3.6.
Tanquam aurum in for-
nace, probauit electos
Dominus.[Bible

, Wisdom of Solomon 3:6]

Psalm. 16.
Probasti cor meum, & igne me
examinasti, & non est inuenta
in me iniquitas.[Bible

, Psalms 17:3]

[101] ↓

Tanquam aurum in fornace.[Bible

, Wisdom of Solomon 3:6]

L’amour veut cuire en sa fournaise:
Ce coeur a l’ardeur de sa braise.

[102] ↓

[blanco]

[103/D] ↓

Biscuit d’amovr.

Qu’il est ioly ce diuin boulanger:
Mais croyez-vous qu’il oseroit man-
ger
Ce cœur, qu’il pense cuire dedans son
four?
Cela s’entend, car il a tousiours fain,
Et ne se paist iamais que de ce pain,
Qu’il cuit luy-mesme au feu de son
Amour.

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De verlichte Ziele verklaert het uyterlijcke vernuft; het afscheyden eens rechtveerdigen [21] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685)) [Compare]
De Ziele spreeckt van den standt der goddeloosen [22] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685)) [Compare]
Remake of image, not mirrored, in: Biscoctum Amoris [55] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]

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Biscoctum Amoris [55] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
De verlichte Ziele verklaert het uyterlijcke vernuft; het afscheyden eens rechtveerdigen [21] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685))
De Ziele spreeckt van den standt der goddeloosen [22] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685))

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Sacred love is about to put a heart in a baker's oven

God's perfections [11A23]
fire (one of the four elements) [21C]
radiance emanating from persons or things [22C31]
heart [31A2221]
pushing something [31A2748]
adult woman [31D15]
smoke [41B162]
open fire, fire-place, stove (in kitchen) [41C2541]
kitchen-utensils (with NAME) [41C27(SPATULA)]
biscuits (+ variant) [41C6222(+0)]
baker [47B1811]
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries (with NAME) [47D8(PEEL)]
Insatiableness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB32(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed) [56F2(+123)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(BISCOCTUM AMORIS)]

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Biscoctum amoris. [24]

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