"Sinnepoppen" van Roemer Visscher – een realistische embleembundel uit de 17e eeuw in de collectie van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Wrocław (Polen)

Abstract

This article gives a detailed description of two prints of Roemer Visscher’s "Sinnepoppen": the first edition from 1614 and the later edition entitled "Zinne-Poppen" without year date elaborated and published by Visscher’s daughter Anna. Copies of both prints are to be found in the University Library in Wrocław among many other old prints from the Netherlands. The complicated history of this library as well as the history of Visscher’s work is given, and also a description and comparison of the two Wrocław copies, with their book history, provenances, today’s shape, remarks of the readers and emblematical structure.