Icones veterum aliquot, ac recentium medicorum, philosophorumque elegiolis suis editae
Icones veterum aliquot, ac recentium medicorum, philosophorumque elegiolis suis editae is a 1574 portrait book by the Hungarian humanist János Zsámboki, printed by Christophe Plantin at Antwerp for scholars and readers of medical and philosophical history. Each page presents a bust portrait in an engraved oval frame with ornamented scrollwork, grotesque figures, and birds, above or below a short Latin verse. A designer could borrow the cartouche framing, the calligraphic running heads, and the way the sitters' heads fill the circular medallion.
