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Chapter 14766 Johannes Sambucus, whose work on an edition of Photius’ Bibliotheca at this same time is discussed by Canfora.98 Heading the Index sive catalogus, the Dictionarium xi Linguarum is obvious- ly the work by which Strada set most store, and in the composition of which he had heavily invested. Basically it should be considered as an illustrated en- cyclopaedia of the ancient world, comparable to similar antiquarian projects such as those planned by the Academia Vitruviana in Rome in the 1540s and 1550s, and Pirro Ligorio’s manuscripts. Like those it illustrated the individual entries by relevant texts and images of coins, inscriptions, monuments and so on. In covering eleven languages its scope was even larger than these other projects, which likewise were never completed, let alone published. When Strada described his project in the index, about a quarter of a century after he had begun it, he had just about reached the letter B. The complete letter A took up ‘sixteen huge folio volumes containing 2,500 folii, written on both sides in 98 Canfora 2001, Ch. xi, ‘Zsamboky’, pp. 85–90; a note in a catalogue by the Munich librar- ian Wolfgang Prommer documents Strada having borrowed the transcript from Fugger’s library: cf. Hartig 1917, p. 116, n.1. Figure 14.32 Julius Caesar, woodcut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch the Younger (ornamental frame) and Rudolf Wyssenbach (the portraits), from Jacopo Strada, Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines, Zürich (Andreas Gessner) 1559, a pirated edition of Strada’s Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, Lyon 1553. Figures 14.33–14.34 The Emperor Diocletian and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, chiaroscuro woodcuts from Hubertus Goltzius’ Les images presque de tous les empereurs depuis C. Julius Caesar jusques a Charles.v. et Ferdinandus son frere, pourtraites au vif, prinses des medailles anciennes <…>, Antwerp 1557.