(Band 2)
This is an emblem book of 1643 by Cesare Ripa, edited by Jean Baudoin, the second volume of an illustrated allegory handbook for artists and writers. Its pictures are small engraved female allegorical figures set in circular frames, many with a Latin motto band, each holding an attribute such as a bird, a sprig, a lantern or a horn. A designer could take from them a compact system of roundel framing and attribute-based personification for symbolic icons.
