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 Division of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Hosea 10 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a woman holding a divided heart out to an angel in one hand and to a wealthy woman adorned in elegant clothing and a globus cruciger on her head in the other. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS DIVISIO, which translates “the division of the heart,” and accompanied by the text of Hosea 10:2. This is the ninth in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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