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

Emblem 183

A boy picking fruits from a tree, an elderly man, coltsfoot

Praecocia non diuturnaLatin

Precocious things do not last long

Doctissimo viro D. STEPHANO LIMBERTO Nordovicensis Scholae Magistro.

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25G11 groups of trees
25G13 groups of plants (herbs)
25G3(+211) trees (+ stump, stub)
25G3(+34) trees (+ bearing fruit)
25G4(COLTSFOOT) plants and herbs (COLTSFOOT)
25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape
25I41 windmill in landscape
26A clouds
31A2352 sitting on an elevation
31A2511(+934) arm raised upward (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching)
31A2512(+933) arm stretched forward (+ holding something)
31AA2516(+939) arm or hand held in front of the body - AA - both arms or hands (+ other neutral connotations)
31A2524 counting off arguments, calculating on fingers
31A2711 walking
31A534 beard
31B6212 looking downwards
31D1122(+89) child between toddler and youth (of undetermined sex) (+ nude human being)
31D16 old man
31D5 young versus old age; young and old
41D212(+81) coat, cape (+ men's clothes)
41D221(+81) head-gear (+ men's clothes)
41D233(+81) gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes)
43B411(+0) climbing up a tree (+ variant)
47I4131 picking fruit
51F521(+4):31D920 Precocity (+ emblematical representation of concept)❧'Velocità della vita humana', 'Vita breve' (Ripa)
51GG3(+4) Fragility; 'Fragilità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
61B2(LIMBERT, Stephen)3 historical person (LIMBERT, Stephen) - other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (LIMBERT, Stephen)
86(PRAECOCIA NON DIUTURNA) proverbs, sayings, etc. (PRAECOCIA NON DIUTURNA)

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem183
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem183
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667