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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 a scholarly readership. Its pictures are engraved portraits of scholars and theologians set inside decorative letter initials and ornamental frames, showing dense crosshatched line work, Renaissance Germanic ornament, and a compact way of combining a single large letter with a figure in a border.
