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Image and Figment

Journal of Early Modern History, 1998

Pictura quasi fictura, a volume of conference papers from the In.stitut für Realienkunde of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, takes its title from a lemma from Joannes Balbus's Catholicon, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia strongly influenced by the work of the seventh-century encyclopedist Isodore of Seville: "et dicitur pictura quasi , fictura sicut pingere quasi fingere. Et estymqgoficia non verita.s." As the introductory article by Gerhard Jaritz, the editor of the volume, suggests, the conceptual linkage of the notions of depicting and making/feigning, of imagc and figment,

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