Jacobus Verheiden

The Praestantium aliquot theologorum (1602) consisted of 50 engraved portraits of Protestant theologians, with a few earlier figures (Berengar of Tours, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague, Girolamo Savonarola and Erasmus) and a few laymen,[3] for which Verheiden supplied Latin text, including biographical and bibliographical information.

The full title presents these men as opponents of the Roman Antichrist, combining images with eulogies by Verheiden; the work is also known by the short Imagines et elogia.

The Dutch translation of 1603, as Afbeeldingen van sommighe in Godts Woort ervarene Mannen, was by Pauwels de Kempenare.

[5] The Praestantium was used at the University of Oxford,[2] and some of the images influenced the painted frieze of the Bodleian Library.

[6] An English adaptation appeared as The History of the Moderne Protestant Divines (1637) by Donald Lupton; it included also material from the Heroologia Anglica of Henry Holland.