Claude Paradin (c. 1510 – 1573), was a French writer, collector of emblems or "devises", historian, and genealogist.
[1] Paradin was born in Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire), spending his adult life as canon of the Collegiate Church in Beaujeu, between Mâcon and Lyons.
These emblemata[3] became commonly used as markers or models of royal, aristocratic or moral ownership as well as decorative pattern books applied in a variety of crafts including, heraldry, masonry, sculpture, painting, woodcuts or textiles.
[7] The new wood blocks for the 1557 edition may be by Bernard Salomon who worked closely with Jean de Tournes.
[13] The design shows a raven drinking from a large cup and the initials ES and GS for Elizabeth and George Shrewsbury.