Icones sive imagines impp., regvm, principvm, electorvm et ducvm Saxoniae
By: vnà cum eorundem elogijs Nicolai Revsneri ...
Contributors: Fabricius, Georg, 1516-1571
Publisher: Typis Tobiae Steinmanni, impensis Henningi Grosii ...
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Ienae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Portraits; Early works to 1800; Kings and rulers
Other titles: Icones sive imagines impp., regum, principum, electorum et ducum Saxoniae
Work titles: Icones sive imagines imperatorum, regum, principum, electorum et ducum Saxoniae
Notes: Published as v. 2 of: Originum illustrissimae stirpis Saxonicae libri septem / Georg Fabricius. See VD16.

The 39 ports. mostly depict their subjects seated behind a table. Many are accompanied by their coats of arms. The initials CK appear in the cuts on A6v and D2r. Decorated frames lacking ports. appear on A6r and B1r.

VD16 R 1425

Binding: 19th-century textured red cloth, quarter goatskin. Spine with title reading upwards, tooled in gilt: ICONES PRINCIPVM SAXONIÆ - N. REVSNERUS; place and date at foot. Centered on front pastedown is large bookplate printed in red of William Stirling (Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1818-1878), and his arms in blind are at center of front cover.

Each port. is annotated after the subject's name at the top of the page with reference in the form of two numbers preceded by the terms "Remp." and "Reusn."  On D1v and D2r slips with additional laudatory verses have been tipped in at the foot of the page. They are dated 1559, Wittenberg, and may be from Warhaffte Bildnis etlicher hochlöblicher Fürsten (Wittenberg : G. Schnelboltz, 1562), a British Museum reader's ticket for which is tipped onto the 2nd front free endpaper.