Title page of the first Latin edition, bearing Rouillé's emblem[a] and motto[b]
Author
Guillaume Rouillé
Illustrator
Georges Reverdy[2]
Country
France
Language
Latin
French
Italian (1553)
Spanish (1561)
Subject
Iconography
Biography
Historicity of the Bible
Publisher
Guillaume Rouillé
Publication date
1553
Media type
Print
Pages
172 (part I)
247 (part II)
OCLC
716696497
Text
Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum at Internet Archive
Prima pars Promptuarii iconum insigniorum à seculo hominum, subiectis eorum vitis, per compendium ex probatissimis autoribus desumptis. (listenⓘ; transl. 'The first part of the storehouse of images of the more notable men from the beginning of time, with their biographies subjoined, taken in abbreviated form from the most approved authors.') or Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum[c] for short is an iconographic collection of wood engravings authored and published by French humanist, numismatist,[5] publisher and bookseller Guillaume Rouillé in Latin, French and Italian in 1553, in Lyon, France. The book's initial editions contain 828 portraits, designed as medallions, of figures some of whom are mythical and some historical. The portraits are listed in chronological order, beginning with those of Adam and Eve and ending with those of renowned individuals from the mid-16th century, each accompanied by a summarized biographical text. In a 1577 edition, approximately 100 more portraits were added.
The contents are divided into two parts: Prima pars ('first part') covers those who supposedly or historically lived before the birth of Christ while pars secunda ('second part') deals with those who did during or after his lifetime. The two parts are usually bound into one book, albeit with separate pagination. The book does not mention the engraver's name; the portraits have been typically attributed, however, to Piedmontese engraver Georges Reverdy [fr; it]. Many of the portraits were based on depictions from ancient coins, but Rouillé did not intend his work to be a numismatic or academic reference text. The book instead appealed as a collection of brief, well-written and illustrated history lessons to a broader audience and became a bestseller in its era.
^ abDavis, Natalie Zemon (1966). "Publisher Guillaume Rouillé, Businessman and Humanist". In Schoeck, Richard J. (ed.). Editing Sixteenth-Century Texts: Papers Given at the Editorial Conference, University of Toronto October 1965. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 93–95. ISBN 9781487582128. Archived from the original on January 1, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2022 – via Academia.edu.
^ This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Baudrier, Henri-Louis; Baudrier, Julien; Tricou, Georges (1912) [1895]. Bibliographie lyonnaise: recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle par le Président Baudrier, publiées et continuées par J. Baudrier [Bibliography of Lyon: Research on the printers, booksellers, bookbinders, and founders of letters in Lyon in the 16th century by President Baudrier, published and continued by J. Baudrier] (in French). Vol. 9. Lyon: Librairie ancienne d'Auguste Brun. p. 207. OCLC 6966263. Retrieved December 29, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^Stein, Gabriele (2014) [1985]. "12. The Promptuarium parvulorum". The English Dictionary Before Cawdrey. Lexicographica. Series Maior. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. p. 91. doi:10.1515/9783111664873. ISBN 9783484309098.
^Cunnally, John (1999). "9. Comme au Clair Miroir de l'Âme: Rouille, Physiognomy, and the Renaissance Bildnisvitenbücher". Images of the Illustrious: the Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance. Princeton University Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780691016689. Retrieved August 27, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
^Kluczek, Agata A. [in Polish] (2018). "Klodia Metelli w rzymskiej tradycji literackiej i nowożytnej tradycji numizmatycznej, czyli uwagi na kanwie książki Agnieszki Dziuby Klodia Metelli. Literacki portret patrycjuszki, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2016, ss. 320" [Clodia Metelli in the Roman Literary Tradition and Modern Numismatic Tradition, i.e. Remarks Based on Agnieszka Dziuba's Book "Klodia Metelli. Literacki portret patrycjuszki", KUL Publishing House, Lublin 2016, pp. 320]. Res Historica (in Polish). 45. Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University: 365–366. doi:10.17951/rh.2018.45.359-371. ISSN 2082-6060. S2CID 240165655. Archived from the original on June 20, 2023. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
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