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Icon Animorum by John Barclay and the Origins of the Characterization of European Nations
Bar SICH
JOANNIS BARCLAU a.
ICON“?
ANIMORUM.
Æditio Indice, Capitum, Rerum
& Lerborum, anttior,
Sumpt. Chriftiani Hermsdorffii,
Literis WusTIANIS
Anno 1675.
Frontispiece and title page of the 1675 Frankfurt edition of Barclay’s Icon Animorum.
Two persons, an ugly humpback and a handsome young man, gaze into a mirror.
Antiquity. The engraving is signed at the bottom corner: J. P. Thelott (?) f/ecit/.
On the tree there is the publisher's device with the saying
HIS STANTIBVS OMNIA RIDENT.
In the central part of the title page one finds the possessor’s mark:
The book is to be found today in the Library of Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), the successor
of the Jesuit University of Nagyszombat/Trnava. In the same library we find more copies of Barclay’s
book. ELTE EK KRNYO (Bar 09161). Courtesy of the Library. (Identification by Ildikó Sz. Kristóf,
Melinda Simon and Vilmos Voigt).
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