Title: [Serce poświęcone kochającemu Jezusowi]

Editio princeps: no print, a manuscript of 1657

Project of copperplate engravings: Anton II Wierix

Engraver: Martin Baes

Access: critical edition

Short description: A manuscriptural collection, dedicated to duchess Katarzyna Radziwiłłowa, consists of twenty emblems. Mikołaj Mieleszko SI was inspired with an anonymous, also manuscriptural cycle of Polish subscriptions to an incomplete (one image was missing) Wierix' set of eighteen engravings Cor Iesu amanti sacrum. During his work Mieleszko used also a Latin translation of an emblematic volume by Étienne Luzvic SI Cor Iesu amanti sacrum of 1628 which was based on copies of an original Wierix' cycle by Martin Baes and two added engravings; their author remains unknown. Icons used by Mieleszko are taken from that edition.

Inscriptions of Mieleszko's collection are modelled on stabat mater dolorosa stanza, subscriptions coherently connect an iconic analysis with a biblical narration. The whole has distinct features of meditational spiritual excersises beginning with an image; subscriptions verify events depicted on the engravings and refer to them.

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