Engraving, second state
Signed ‘Hh ex.’ by Hendrick Hondius
Copy in same direction as Cock 1572 engraved Pictorum

20.1 x 11.9 cm

Transcription of Inscription [Lampsonius]:

LAMBERTO LOMBARDO, LEODIENSIS PICTORI. ET ARCHITECTO.
Elogium, ex merito quod te, Lombarde, decebat,
     Non libet hîc paucis texere versiculis :
Continet hoc ea charta (legi si nostra merentur)
     De te quam fecit Λαμψονίοτε γραφίς

To Lambert Lombard of Liège, painter and architect
It does not please [me], Lombard, to write here in a few verses an epigraph which would be suitable to your merits.  Those pages contain it which (if our works deserve to be read) the Lampsonian pen¹ wrote about you.

Hollstein 1994 no. 99

 Karel Van Mander’s biography of Lambert Lombard
 Grove Art Online biography

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1. This for the Greek Λαμψονίοτε γραφίς.  Λαμψονίοτε is apparently the author’s attempt to invent a Greek adjective based on his name.  However, the form is bad Greek (better would be Λαμψονιοτὴ) and neither the author’s form nor mine will help the metre. The work by Lampsonius’s pen referred to is his biography of Lambert Lombard: Lamberti Lombardi apud Eburiones pictoris celeberrimi vita, Bruges, 1565.