De claris selectisque mulieribus
De claris selectisque mulieribus is a 1497 Latin collection of biographies of notable women, compiled by Giacomo Filippo Forèsti and printed with woodcut illustrations, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its pictures are framed woodcut portraits of women in robes set against landscape backgrounds with plants and hills, each beside a decorated initial letter and dense black-letter text, offering a designer models of early printed page layout and classical-style figure woodcuts.
