Author: VALERIANUS, Ioannes Pierius.
Title: Hieroglyphica, sive De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium litteris, commentariorum libri LVIII. cum duobis aliis ab eruditissimo viro annexis.
Description: Köln, Ex Officina Hieratorum FF. (Antonius & Arnoldus Hierat), 1631. Edition novissima. 4to. (23, 8x18, 5 cm.) [60], 248, [8], 20, 123, 83, 760, [56] pp. With numerous woodcuts in the text. Later leather binding. (binding slightly damaged; library stamps; browned (parts severely browned) throughout; one page slightly damaged in the margin; hinges reinforced) ¶ Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558), studied in Venice a.o. under Giorgio Valla and Marcantinio Sabellico. Aldus Manitius employed him up to his departure to Rome. During Leo X's pontificate he was given almost unlimited access to the hieroglyphics and antiquities in Rome's papal and private collections. "His largely underappreciated Hieroglyphica acts as a precursor to books such as Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, and is a guide to much Renaissance iconography." (Wikipedia) The main work 'Hieroglyphica' is preceded by the following: Hieroglyphicorum collectanea ex veteribus & neotericis descripta. / Horapollinis Hieroglyphica .. correcta & suppleta. / Pro sacerdotum barbis declamatio. / Poemata & opuscula varia. / De litteratorum infelicitate. / Antiquitatum Bellunensium, una cum de Flaviorum nobilitate etc. Valerianus dedicates the work to Cosimo I de Medici.

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