Emblemata, et aliqvot nvmmi antiqvi operis, Ioan. Sambvci Tirnaviensis Pannonii
Emblemata is a 1576 emblem book by Hungarian humanist János Zsámboki (Sambucus), printed in Antwerp by the Plantin press for a learned readership interested in classical coins and moral maxims. Its small woodcuts pair each motto with a scene of allegorical or biblical figures in architectural and landscape settings, and a designer can borrow their compact, hatched line work and stagey poses for narrative vignettes.
