Illustrium Virorum Iureconsultor[um]
Subtitle: ...
By: Ex Museo M. Mantuae Benavidii Patavini jure con clariss
Contributors: Zaltieri, Bolognino, active 1555-1576, publisher; Zenoi, Domenico, active 1560-1580, engraver; Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619, former owner
Publisher: Appresso Bolognino Zaltieri
Published: 1570
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: lat
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Portraits; Lawyers; Early works to 1800; Italian Portraits
Other titles: Illustrium Virorum Iureconsultorum
Description: Includes Renaissance portraits by Domenico Zenoi of 24 lawyers based on paintings in the collection of Mantova Benavides, also known as Marco Mantovano (1489-1582). Includes portraits of Richardus Malumbra, Bartholomaeus Capivacius, Reinerus de Forolivio, Johannes Ludovicus Lambertacius, Francesco Porcellini, Raffaele Raimondi, Raffaele Fulgosio, Prosdocimus Comes, Giovanni Francesco Capodilista, Franciscus Capilistius, Antonius Capodilista, Jacobus de Zocchis, Laurus de Palatiis, Checus Leonius, Jacopo Alvarotti, Jakobus Sancrucius, Paulus de Castro, Nicolaus Castren, Philippus Curtivius, Bartholomaeus Capodilista, Caliga Nasimbenius, Paulus Ungarelius, Antonius Orsatus and Benedictus de Plumbino.
Notes: Engraved title page.

" ... Cum prę huius exiquę pagine angustia (Gemmarie obseruandissime, ues potius inter ca[n]didatos ac strenuos fulgentissima Gemma) quicquam de virtutibus, nec non ingennis gestis tuis (ut uellem) non postuierem explicare; nunc ut postam, hac arcta breuiate perstrictue te etiam alq[uem]; etiam rogo, ut qualescunq[ue] hę mcę uigiue, sculabores extiterit, ea generosa fronte suscipias, ueluti syncero pectore a Dominico tuo (omni qua decet reuerentia) amplissimo tuo Nomini offeruntur ac dicatur. Vale et me (ut pero) diligas atq[ue] comendatum habeas ..."

LC copy imperfect: portion of caption cut away from first portrait. The name of Ricardus Malumbra Cremonensis supplied from item on the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, Germany Virtual Printroom website.

LC copy: Binding: contemporary French limp vellum, gold tooling with monogram of the French lawyer Antoine Arnaud (1560-1619) in center with addition monograms on each corner of front and back covers. In cloth covered folding case.

With: Imagines quorudam principum, et illustrium virorum : Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri, Bolognini Zalterij formis, Nicolai Valegij formis : Venetijs, 1569. Issued together?

The portraits in the copy of this volume in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig and the Herzog August Bibliothek Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany have been digitized and are searchable through the Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett (Virtual Print Room) website.

A blog post about this item by Nathan Dorn with some images in digital form from the item is available on the Library of Congress Law Library In Custodia Legis blog site: The Faces of Renaissance Law, Pic of the Week, October 12, 1912.

Latin captions,
Table of contents: title: (from portrait captions): [1]. [Ricardus Malumbra Cremonensis] floruit Roberti Regis Sicilie temporibus, que[m] patre[m] legu[m] uocat Ancharanus; title: [2]. Bartholomeus capiuacius floruit Anno 1350; title: [3]. Raynerius Forolimen ... floruit Anno MCCCLVIII; title: [4]. Io. Ludouicus ... floruit Anno 1382 ... [5]. Non in postremis habitus é Franc. Porcellinius ... floruit Anno M CCCC IIII; title: [6]. Raphael Cumanus ... floruit Anno 1426; title: [7]. Raphael Fulgo ... floruit Anno M CCCC XXVI; title: [8]. Prosdocimus Comes ... floruit temporibus Cumani et Fulgosij; title: [9]. Io. Franciscus Capilistius ... D. Veneti an[n]o D[omi]ni. 1434; title: [10]. Franciscus capilistius, per ea tempora floruit quibus Io. Franciscus; title: [11]. Antonius Capilistius per ea tempora quibus Io. Franciscus; title: [12]. Iacobus Ferrariensis ... floruit Anno M CCCC XL.; title: (from portrait captions): [13]. Laurus Palazzolius ... floruit eo tempore quo Jacobus Zochus; title: [14]. Checus Leonius floruit Anno 1450; title: [15]. Iacobus Almarotus Senior ... floruit Anno 1439; title: [16]. Iacobus Sancrucius ... floruit Anno 1440; title: [17]. Quis fuerit Paulus Castren[sis] ... floruit Anno 1437; title: [18]. Nicolaus Castren[sis] floruisse Paulo post. Angelu[m] ...; title: [19]. Philippus Curtiuius ... floruit Anno M CCCC XLIX; title: [20]. Bartholomeus Capilistius ... floruit Anno 1450; title: [21]. Nasimbenius Caliga ... floruit Anno 1451; title: [22]. Paulus Vngarelius ... floruit Anno M CCCC LIIII; title: [23]. Antonius Orsatus ... floruit an[n]o 1473; title: [24]. Benedictus de Plumbino ... floruit Anno M CCC LXXXVI Bononie.