Andreæ Alciati emblemata cvm commentariis Clavdii Minois...: & notis Lavrentii Pignorii Patavini : nouissima hac editione in continuam vnius commentarij seriem congestis, in certas quasdam quasi classes dispositis, & plusquam dimidia parte auctis
Andrea Alciato's emblem book, first issued 1531 and here printed at Padua in 1621 by Pietro Paolo Tozzi with the commentaries of Claude Mignault, Lorenzo Pignoria and Johann Thuille, aimed at scholars and readers of Latin mottoes. Each of the 229 square woodcuts sets a compact scene — eagles on crags, a hunter with hounds, Aeneas carrying Anchises from burning Troy, a figure reaching toward a cloud — inside a repeating border of grotesque herms, urns, animals and foliate scrollwork, useful for frame stock, small allegorical vignettes and ornament strips.
