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791Ambitions as a Publisher Figure 14.45 Elias Hutter’s polyglot edition of the New Testament, in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish, Czech and Polish, printed in Nuremberg in 1599, title page. Figures 14.43–14.44 Elias Hutter, Dictionarium harmonicum biblicum, Nuremberg 1598, title page and p. 9. Bible editions may derive from those Strada planned to have cut by Jost Am- man after Giovanni Battista Scultori’s designs; and some of Amman’s illustra- tions for the unfinished book of Mummereyen, festival costumes, were in fact printed and sold as separate sheets or series [above, Figs. 4.23–4.25]. Finally Strada’s own descendants, his son Ottavio and his grandson, Ottavio Strada the Younger, brought out several publications based on Jacopo’s work or on the materials he had collected. Ironically, it was Ottavio who in his De Vitis Imperatorum et Caesarum Ro- manorum and in his Genealogia et series Austriae Ducum, Archiducum, Regum et Imperatorum realized at least part of two of the works listed in Strada’s Index sive catalogus (items 7 and 19). The first of these, a series of lives of the Ro- man emperors accompanied by images of their coinage, was posthumously printed in 1615 in Frankfurt at the expense of the publisher Laurentius Francus [Fig.  14.47–14.48], and in 1618 in a German translation by Ottavio’s own son Ot- tavio Strada von Rosberg the Younger [Fig. 14.46]. Both versions were reprinted by Eberhard Kiefer in Frankfurt in 1629, together with the second work, a Latin genealogy of the Habsburg dynasty, which itself many years later was reprinted in Leiden in 1664. It can be assumed that both works given to Ottavio were largely based on his father’s manuscripts; yet since Ottavio probably exten- sively collaborated on these in his youth, he cannot be blamed for wishing to garner some laurels by them.