Insignia sacrae caesareae maiestatis, principvm electorvm, ac aliqvot illvstrissimarvm, illvstrium, nobilium, & aliarum familiarum, formis artificiosissimis expressa : addito cuiq[ue] peculiari symbolo, & carmine octasticho, quibus cum ipsum insigne tum symbolum ingeniosè, ac sine vlla arrogantia vel mordacitate, liberaliter explicantur : his adiecta svnt totidem vacva (vti appellant) scuta, vt alij quoq[ue], quib. hoc institutum placebit, suae etiam gentis imagines penicillo adijcere possint ...
Contributors: Lonicer, Philipp, -1599
Publisher: Apvd Georgivm Corvinvm, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij
Published: 1579
Place of publication: Francofvrti ad Moenvm
Language: lat
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Heraldry; Early works to 1800; Allegories
Other titles: Insignia sacrae caesareae maiestatis, principum electorum, ac aliquot illustrissimarum, illustrium, noblium, & aliarum familiarum, formis artificiosissimis expressa
Notes: Printer and publisher from colophon.

A German-language ed. appeared at the same time and again in 1589, with title: Stam vnd Wapenbuch hochs vnd niders Standts... See Andresen.

The ill. are generally family arms on the versos, and allegories, mythological figures, social types, etc., on the rectos. The allegorical interpretations of both are by Philipp Lonicer. The last 14 p. before the colophon have blank shields, four to a page. The preceding 40 p. mostly have full-page blank shields with figures, alternating with allegorical figures, both without text. The woodcuts are by Jost Amman (some signed IA). and other artists represented by the initials MF, LF, MB, MT(?), CS.

Andresen, A.  Deutsche Peintre-Graveur, I, p. 375

Library's copy has 120 leaves, rather than the 148 leaves called for by Andresen, where it is noted that complete copies are rare.

Binding: old goatskin, rebacked, and repaired at foot of spine. The boards are gold tooled with single fillets along the edges, and stamped in the center with an armorial device of 5 arrows gathered by a ribbon with motto, beneath a coronet. Below the device on the front cover are the initials MSD. Feyerabend's device with Fame on t.p. and, in a different version, at the colophon.