Icones virorum nostra patrumq[ue] memoria illustrium, quorum opera cum literar[um] studia, tum vera religio fuit restaurata
By: ab Henrico Hondio sculptae aeneisq[ue] tipis excusae
Publisher: Hendrik Hondius
Published: 1599
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: lat
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Protestants; Portraits; Early works to 1800; Reformation
Other titles: Icones virorvm nostra patrvmq. memoria illvstrivm, qvorvm opera cvm literar[um] stvdia, tvm vera religio fvit restavrata
Notes: Consists of an illustrated title page; 49 ports. of Protestant Reformers and a few others, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Savonarola, each with Latin verses beneath; and a final leaf of verses with a depiction of the sun and moon circling the earth.

Most leaves are signed with the monogram of Hendrik Hondius the Elder.

Entirely engraved.

This set of engravings was later used to illustrate: Jacob Verheiden, Praestantium aliquot theologorum effigies (The Hague, 1602 and later eds.).

Someren, J.F. van. Beschrijvende catalogus van gegraveerde portretten van nederlanders, 169a

Gift; Philip Hofer; 4 November 1975; H532-3.

From the library at Schloss Nordkirchen, with its armorial bookplate.

No. 1 in volume with 4 other contemporary portrait collections.

Bound in contemporary brown calf, covers roll-tooled in gilt and blind with gilt oval centerpieces, edges sprinkled red.