Title: Icones, id est, Verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium: quorum præcipuè ministerio partim bonarum literarum studia sunt restituta, partim vera religio in variis orbis Christiani regionibus, nostra patrúmque memoria fuit instaurata : additis eorundem vitæ & operæ descriptionibus, quibus adiectæ sunt nonnullæ picturæ quas emblemata vocant.

Full Title: Icones, id est, Verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium : quorum præcipuè ministerio partim bonarum literarum studia sunt restituta, partim vera religio in variis orbis Christiani regionibus, nostra patrúmque memoria fuit instaurata : additis eorundem vitæ & operæ descriptionibus, quibus adiectæ sunt nonnullæ picturæ quas emblemata vocant / Theodoro Beza auctore.

Variant Titles: Icones. Verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium.

Summary: First edition of a richly illustrated Protestant biography by the Reformed theologian Theodore Beza.

Language: Latin,

Physical Type/Description: 318 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm (4to). General Note: Signatures: *⁴ A-2P⁴ 2Q⁴ (2Q4 blank). Title vignette. Errata: leaf 2Q3verso. Includes name index. Pitts Theology Library copy bound in blind tooled pigskin.

Citation/Reference Note: Adams B 920. Grässe I:359. Brunet I:843. Henkel and Schöne. Emblemata, p. xlvii-xlviii (variant).