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A 1597 Frankfurt biographical collection of fifty portraits of learned men, published by Theodor de Bry with text by Jean Jacques Boissard and Adam Lonicer for scholarly readers. The pictures are decorated woodcut initials, each letter filled with a small figure, grotesque mask, or emblem, in dense strapwork and foliage that a designer could borrow for historical lettering and ornamental capitals.
