Guillaume de La Perrièrre, Le Theatre Des Bons Engins (Lyon, 1545)
Emblem 72
A pear tree ripening in the rays of the sunAI-generated
Auec le temps toute chose est cogneue.
Emblem 72. With time everything becomes known.AI-generated
Description of the woodcutAI-generated
A woodcut in a rectangular frame: at left a pear tree with fruit and leaves, its trunk twisted, growing on a bank of ground; at right a large radiant sun with a human face, its long rays streaming across the scene toward the tree; below, a flat rocky landscape with a strip of ground in the foreground.
Subscriptio
TranscriptionAI-generated
LA poyre verte aux raidz du chauld Soleil,Change de goust, & prend bonne saueur.Semblablement, le ieune sans conseil,Auec le temps, amende sa fureur.Le Temps corrige, & change toute erreur.Le Temps est chef des bons apprentissages:Ceulx qui sont Sotz, il faict deuenir Sages,Et leurs raisons trouuer belles & bonnes.Si le Soleil faict meurir les fruictages,Aussi les ans meurissent les personnes.
TranslationAI-generated
The green pear, under the rays of the hot Sun, changes its taste and takes on a good flavour. In like manner the young man without counsel, with time, amends his wildness. Time corrects and changes every error. Time is the chief of good apprenticeships: those who are fools it makes become wise, and makes their reasonings be found fine and good. If the Sun ripens the fruits, so also the years ripen persons.
Iconclass
86(AUEC LE TEMPS TOUTE CHOSE EST COGNEUE)proverbs, sayings, etc. (AUEC LE TEMPS TOUTE CHOSE EST COGNEUE)25G3(PEAR-TREE)trees (with NAME)25G21(PEAR)fruits: pear24A6sun represented as face, wheel, etc.24A81sunbeams3Human Being, Man in General51FF511Maturity51K4Evolution
Suggested Iconclass codesAI-generated
Additional codes proposed for this emblem, not (yet) part of the indexing.
25HlandscapesmediumThe woodcut shows a flat rocky landscape with a bank of ground and a tree, matching the generic 'landscapes' correlate.
47I41fruit-tree culture; fruit harvestlowA fruit-bearing pear tree is the central motif, though the image shows no actual fruit-tree cultivation or harvesting activity as the correlate specifies.
Relationships to the Adagia of ErasmusAI-generated
Suggested relationships between this emblem and adages in Erasmus’ Adagia.
- III ix 57 Aetate prudentiores reddimur – thematic inventiomedium
The subscriptio's core claim — that the headstrong youth 'auec le temps amende sa fureur' and that Time 'corrige & change toute erreur', making fools wise — restates exactly Erasmus' point that we no longer approve what pleased us 'ob aetatis inscitiam' but grow wiser through experience.
- I viii 60 Senesco semper multa addiscens – thematic inventiomedium
'Le Temps est chef des bons apprentissages' / 'les ans meurissent les personnes' echoes Solon's proverb as Erasmus glosses it: 'usu vitae multaque rerum experientia parari prudentiam' — wisdom acquired by continual learning as the years pass.
- II iv 17 Tempus omnia revelat – direct mottolow
The French motto 'Auec le temps toute chose est cogneue' is a close vernacular rendering of the proverb that time discloses/brings to light all things, which Erasmus collects among the adages on truth as the daughter of time.
- I vii 37 Apio mollior, aut mitior – thematic inventiolow
The emblem's central image — the hard green pear that under the sun becomes 'mitior', sweet and mellow, as a figure for a person mellowing — coincides with Erasmus' proverbial pear-ripeness metaphor for mildness of character.
- IV i 83 Iuvenari – thematic inventiolow
The 'ieune sans conseil' whose 'fureur' time corrects matches Erasmus' description of youth as unstable through ignorance and uncontrolled passions, acting 'maiore impetu quam iudicio' until maturity is reached.
Sources
Record ID: embhab_162-3-eth-b_emblem072
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embhab_162-3-eth-b_emblem072
Page in the digital copy of the Herzog August Bibliothek: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/162-3-eth-b/start.htm?image=00085