Emblemata, et aliqvot nvmmi antiqvi operis, Ioan. Sambvci Tirnaviensis Pannonii
Contributors: Nicolai, Arnaud; Muller, Cornelis Jansz, approximately 1540-; Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van, active 1564-1589; Heere, Lucas de, 1534-1584; Huys, Pieter, 1519-1581; Ballain, Geoffroy, 16th cent
Edition: Qvarta editio, cum emendatione & auctario copioso ipsius auctoris.
Publisher: Apud Christophorum Plantinum
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Antverpiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Emblems; Roman Coins
Other titles: Emblemata, et aliquot nummi antiqui operis ...
Notes: The 5th Latin ed., not the 4th. First published 1564. See Voet.

All copies printed at Leiden, but some (such as the present copy) received a t.p. with Plantin's Antwerp imprint; see Voet.

Plantin's device on t.p. (compasses). Author's port. on t.p. verso, signed A for Arnaud Nicolai, who with Cornelis Muller and Gerard Janssen van Kampen was responsible for cutting blocks for the emblems, after drawings by Luc de Heere and Pieter Huys (one by Geoffroy Ballain); see Voet. The section devoted to emblems is followed from p. 289 by that devoted to Roman coins; it is dedicated to Jean Grolier.

Signatures: A-Y⁸.

Voet, L.  Plantin press, 2172B

Library's copy lacks C7 with p. 47 and 48.

Binding: vellum over paste paper. Title written at head of spine.

Several woodcuts in library's copy are hand-colored (p. 52, 79, 199, 214, 215). Face drawn in ink on p. 333. Brief inscriptions on p. 274 and 288, a lengthy inscription on back flyleaf.