Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Hieroglyphicorvm ex sacris Aegyptiorum literis libri octo
A 1556 Latin treatise by the Italian humanist Pierio Valeriano, printed in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino, interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphs as symbols for Renaissance readers and scholars. Its woodcut plates show animals and figures in small framed scenes, each with a motto, and they show how emblematic pictures carried moral meaning, useful to a designer working on symbolic or allegorical imagery.
