1. It was also a familiar motif in emblem books and tombs. 2. The work resembles an emblem book with its Latin mottoes, epigrams and Bible verses. 3. Another source of Christianized fables was in the emblem books of the 16th-17th centuries. 4. Sambucus'emblem book was edited five times and it was translated into French and Dutch. 5. It dates back to emblem books . 6. Some early emblem books were unillustrated, particularly those issued by the French printer Denis de Harsy. 7. Sections of each chapter detailed the animal and its attributes, in the tradition of the emblem book . 8. The draw on the tradition of emblem books to use symbols to teach both religious and secular knowledge. 9. Freeman disqualifies this book by Jenner as an emblem book , by a general four-point criterion. 10. With time, however, the reading public came to expect emblem books to contain picture-text combinations.
