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Title
Icones, id est, Verae imagines virorvm doctrina simvl et pietate illvstrivmqvorvm praecipuè ministerio partim bonarum literarum studia sunt restituta, partim vera religio in variis orbis christiani regionibus, nostra patrúmque memoria fuit instaurata: additis eorundem vitae & operae descriptionibus, quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant
Authors and contributors
- Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. creator
Publisher
apvd I. Laonivm
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Place of Publication
Genevae
Physical Description
reformatted digitalprint[320] p. (the last 2 blank) ill. (incl. ports.) 24 cm. (4to)
Subjects
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- Reformation -- Biography
- Reformation -- Biography -- Portraits
- Religious biography -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
- Emblems -- Early works to 1800
- Europe -- Religion -- 16th century
Notes
- Theodoro Beza auctore.
- Jean de Laon's allegorical device on t.p. On t.p. verso is woodcut port. of James VI of Scotland, to whom the work is dedicated. The ports. appear in the oval openings of decorative surrounds. Some of the openings are empty, the subject's name in letterpress being substituted for the missing port. The 44 emblems appear in rectangular decorative surrounds, one to a page, followed by explanatory Latin couplets (2K3v-2Q1r). Headpieces, decorated initials.
- Signatures: * 2Q.
- Errata, 2Q3v.
- Includes index.