Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes (Leiden, 1586)

Emblem 95

A pelican opens its breast to spray the chicks with its own blood

Quod in te est, promeLatin

Bring forth what is in you

Ad eundem

Interpretation: Pelican feeding her young (Give utterance to what is within you)
Interpretation (German): Enfaltung der geistigen Anlagen

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11D131 symbols of Christ ~ animals
25F36(PELICAN)(+21) water-birds: pelican (+ young animal)
25F36(PELICAN)(+544) water-birds: pelican (+ animal with head bent forward; bowing animal)
25F36(PELICAN)(+553) water-birds: pelican (+ animal with forelegs stretched sidewards)
25F36(PELICAN)(+42) water-birds: pelican (+ feeding and care of young)
25F36(PELICAN)(+421) water-birds: pelican (+ nest, den, burrow)
25F36(PELICAN)(+62) water-birds: pelican (+ animal(s) being wounded)
25G(+222) plants; vegetation (+ thorny twig)
25G11 groups of trees
25G4 plants and herbs
25H114 low hill country
31A22611 blood
52A13(+4) Talent (+ emblematical representation of concept)
55C2(+4) Giving (+ emblematical representation of concept)
61B2(NOWEL, Alexander)3 historical person (NOWEL, Alexander) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (NOWEL, Alexander)
73D82(CROWN OF THORNS)(+0) crown of thorns ~ instruments of the Passion (+ variant)
86(QUOD IN TE EST, PROME) proverbs, sayings, etc. (QUOD IN TE EST, PROME)

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem095
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem095
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667