Imperatorvm Romanorvm omnivm orientalivm et occidentalivm verissimae imagines ex antiqvis nvmismatis qvam fidelissime delineatae
By: addita cvivsqve vitae descriptione ex Thesavro Iacobi Stradae et per brevi elogio vnivacvivsqve carmine, qvod qvasi epitome est historiae, ad ivvandam memoriam
Contributors: Gessner, Andreas, 1513-1559, printer; Schweitzer, Christoph; Wyssenbach, Rudolf; Manuel, Hans Rudolf, 1525-1571; Flötner, Peter, 1485-1546
Publisher: Ex officina Andreae Gesneri
Published: 1559
Place of publication: Tigvri
Language: lat
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Roman Numismatics; Early works to 1800; Numismatics; Emperors; Portraits; Kings and rulers
Other titles: Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis quam fidelissime delineatae
Notes: The strapwork title-page border incorporating Gessner's device is signed CS for Christoph Schweitzer. There is a smaller version of the device on V5v. Portrait heads of the emperors appear in large roundels (28 cm.) on the recto of each leaf starting with A1, and brief biographies appear within decorative borders on the versos. The architectural borders of the portraits are signed RW for Rudolf Wyssenbach, and HRMD for Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The arabesque tailpieces that follow some of the biographies are from Peter Flötner's designs published at Zurich in 1549. For identification of the graphic artists, see Mortimer.

Errata on verso of last leaf.

Mortimer, R. French 16th-cent., 502 (entry for the Lyons ed. of 1553)