Hieroglyphica, seu De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis commentarii
Hieroglyphica is a 1594 Latin commentary on Egyptian sacred writing by Pierio Valeriano, with additions by Celio Augustino Curione, printed in Lyons by Thomas Soubron for scholars of emblems and ancient symbols. Its small woodcuts show human figures and animals acting out emblematic gestures against plain landscapes, with a rough, hatched line that suggests how to build simple symbolic scenes for a designer.
