[Alba amicorum]. Anonymous (16th cent.). "Cura Vigil. Ut cum laude geras res, ex...

[Alba amicorum]. Anonymous (16th cent.). "Cura Vigil. Ut cum laude geras res, expergiscere, magnas, Et tibi sit galli cura magistra vigil". Circular watercolour, heightened w. gold, within double circular border, Ø 7 cm., on leaf from an album amicorum w. calligraphed title above the watercolour and the name of the contributor below the watercolour: "Joannes Franzius Blauiensis Silesius" (leaf size: 18,3x12 cm.). - Leaf sl. fingersoiled in lower margin; sm. wormhole in blank left margin. = Copied after one of the emblems in Camerarius' Symbolorum et emblematum (vol. 4, no.50). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII. AND 12 other mostly manuscript leaves from various mainly German 16th-18th cent. alba amicorum, i.a. a fine watercolour coat of arms heightened w. gold (12,2x10 cm., w. manuscript caption: "30 Juni Ano 1600 [...?] in des Jesus geburt"); a handcol. woodcut heightened w. gold of a lady playing the lute and with a heraldic symbol at her side (w. manuscript text [illegible], from an unidentified late 16th cent. German publication). = Part of the contributors is identified and most of them were medical doctors.