Arise, My Love: The Garden

A walled garden of four green beds and a fountain, with a couple at its edge, under a line from the Song of Songs.

Work: Thesaurus thesaurorum et secretum secretissimum (Wellcome MS 4775)
Artist / creator: Unknown author and illustrator
Origin & date: Probably c. 1725 (catalogue date "[1725?]"); Latin, with additions in German verse
Held by: Wellcome Collection, London (MS 4775)

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The story

A garden laid out in four green-edged beds surrounds a fountain at the centre. Two trees grow from the upper beds, a white swan sits in one of the lower ones and a dark bird spreads its wings in another, while a couple in court dress stand at the edge talking. The heading is the Song of Songs, chapter two: Surge propera amica mea, formosa mea, et veni; arise, my love, my fair one, and come away, for the winter is past and the flowers appear on the earth. Below, one flask stands in a tub, marked terra foliata, the leafy earth. On page 66 the manuscript has reached spring, and the glass has reached its first solid.

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