Book Title: Pious addresses of the heart to God wherein is shown its departure from and return to God in forty seven divine emblems illustrated with copper plates / By a Private Hand.

Author: Private hand

Image Title: The Mirror of the Heart with Five Wounds

Scripture Reference:

• Exodus 25 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a woman holding her heart up to a mirror held by an angel that reflects a heart with five stigmata wounds. The image is titled with the Latin SPECULUM CORDIS IN QUINQUE VULNERIBUS, which translates “the mirror of the heart with five wounds,” accompanied by the text of Exodus 25:40. This is the eighteenth in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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