Book Title: Spiegel van het menselyk bedrijf : in kleuren vertoond met honderd verbeeldingen, van ambachten, konsten, hanteeringen en bedryven, met verzen / Jan en Kasper Luiken.

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Bookbinder: The eye of the eternal being Can read the book of your heart

Scripture Reference:

• 2 Timothy 3 (further images / scripture text)

Description: In a large airy workshop and bookstore, a bookbinder is in the process of sewing the signatures of printed pages. A second binder pounds the folded signatures flat with a heavy wooden mallet. On the floor are a circular knife and a glue pot. Bound books are displayed on the bookshelves. The Dutch artist and poet, Jan Luiken (1649-1712), was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Motto: The eye of the eternal being / Can read the book of your heart. Poem: If knowledge lay secretly in the corners, / Where the path led to heaven, / It would be worthwhile to search the world: /However now that man has been clearly taught /In the holy scripture, given by God,/He loathes the righteous life. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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