Imagines et elogia virorum illustrium et eruditorum. Ex antiquis lapidibus et nomismatibus / expressa cum annotationibus. Ex bibliotheca Fulvi Vrsini.

Romae : P. Dehuchino, Ant. Lafrerij formeis, MDLXX [1570]

111 pages : illustrations, engr. title page & portraits ; (folio)

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/79/76

Colophon: Venetiis MDLXX. In aedibus Petri Dehuchino, Galli. (The text was printed at Venice).

Signatures: A-O4

Engraved title within architectural border.

Some pages have woodcut illustrations and printed text; some have engraved text and illustrations.

Many of the plates are from a collection of 52 plates issued by Lafréry in 1569 under the title Illustrium virorum, ut extant in urbe expressi vultus, cum praefatione Achillis Statii.

Pierre de Nolhac, in "La bibliothèque de Fulvio Orsini" (Bibliothèque de l'École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques, fasc. 74) does not consider Orsini's work an ed. of the 1569 work, but a new work.

Page 97, numbered in manuscript, has original printed number 105 partially erased.

Includes index.

Copy 1 Note: P. 97-100 contain copies of inscriptions to physicians. Thirty are in Latin and four in Greek. There are five inscriptions to librarians (p. 102-5)

Copy 2 Note: Imperfect. Bound with: Estaço, A. Inlustrium virorum ut extant in urbe expressi vultus. 1569.