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Hadriani Ivnii medici Emblemata. Eivsdem Aenigmatvm libellvs

Junius, Hadrianus, 1511-1575, Junius, Hadrianus, 1511-1575. Aenigmatum libellus, Ballain, Godefroid, 16th cent, Huys, Pieter, 1519-1581?, Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van, active 1564-1589, Nicolai, Arnaud · 1566 · Antverpiae, Ex officina Christophori Plantini · 34 pictures

An emblem book by the Dutch physician Hadrianus Junius, printed in Antwerp in 1566 by the Plantin press for a learned humanist readership. Its pictures are small framed woodcut scenes, each paired with a Latin motto, showing figures in landscapes with allegorical symbols. A designer could take from them the compact framing, the pairing of image and short text, and the way a single symbol carries a moral idea.

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