“Deterivs formido” (I fear the worst)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/deterivs-formido-temo-lo-peor-nucleus-emblematum-selectissimorum.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
On this occasion, I am sending you the eighty-fourth emblem of the book Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘The Nucleus of the Most Select Emblems’, with the texts in Latin and Old French and a possible translation.
“Non qvam crebro, sed qvam bene” (Not how often, but how well)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/non-qvam-crebro-sed-qvam-bene-nucleus-emblematum-selectissimorum.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
Os envío el vigésimo quinto emblema del libro Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘el núcleo de los emblemas más selectos’.
“DVRABO” (I will resist) and “VICTRIX PATIENTIA DVRI” (Patience is victorious in difficulties)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dvrabo-y-victrix-patientia-dvri-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I send you the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth of a book of poems written by the same German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen. The book is entitled Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, ‘The Nucleus of the Most Select Emblems’.
“NESCIT LABI VIRTUS” (Virtue does not know how to fall) and “QUOCUNQUE FERAR” (Wherever it is taken)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/nescit-labi-virtus-y-quocunque-ferar-selectorum-emblemata.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
On this occasion I send you two emblems from the same book: Selectorum emblematum, with the text in Latin and Old French.
Two engravingshttps://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/grabados-9-y-59-selectorum-emblematum-gabriel-rollenhagen.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I am sending you two emblems or engravings, number 9 and number 59, both from the book Selectorum emblematum – ‘Selected Emblems’ – written by the German poet Gabriel Rollenhagen.
“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/no-haya-nada-en-la-boca-que-antes-no-haya-estado-en-el-sentido-daniel-cramer-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
I send you this forty-fifth emblem from Daniel Cramer’s book of emblems entitled: “Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)
“Pavpertate premor subleuor ingenio” (I am brought down by poverty, and lifted up by natural inclination)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/soy-abatido-por-la-pobreza-y-levantado-por-la-inclinacion-natural-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
On this occasion, I am sending you a drawing that appears in another book of emblems entitled Selectorum emblematum ─’Selected emblems’─. The texts belong to the German poet Gabrielis Rollenhagi (1583-1619), and the engravings to Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson (1588-1664).
“Spes et patientia vincit” (Hope and patience win)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/la-esperanza-y-la-paciencia-vencen-daniel-cramer-emblema-31-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
In 1630 a book of emblems by Daniel Cramer was published called OCTOGINTA EMBLEMATA MORALIA NOVA ─’eighty new moral emblems’─.
This is the emblem number 31.
“Reciproca sponsae sponsiqve ad hortum suum invitatio” (A mutual invitation from the bride and groom to their garden)https://vopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/el-paraiso-del-novio-y-de-la-novia-philip-galle-default.jpg850480V.M. Kwen Khan KhuV.M. Kwen Khan Khuhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e832d7de00772123ef7f897d80b0841daa13143ee04fa7c99f7a066face011ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g
To experience the CHRISTIC LOVE we will need to be betrayed ─hence the bag of coins that appears in the Christic garden─, we will need to experience the three nails of the Redeemer’s cross, we will suffer the crown of thorns ─internally speaking─, we will be victims of the insolence of the Ego ─see the whip─, we will have to acquire the Christic will ─marked by the hammer─, etc., etc., etc.