My PhD project examines the materiality and transmission of images in alba amicorum in Europe between 1550 and 1700. Alba amicorum, also known as libri amicorum, friendship albums, Stammbücher, and Philothecas, were pocket-sized albums used mainly in Protestant Europe to collect inscriptions, mottoes, heraldic devices and illustrations from acquaintances since the mid-sixteenth century. Such albums originated as printed Bibles bearing handwritten entries popular among the Reformed academic circles in Wittenberg in the 1540s, and soon proliferated to other regions and professional groups, diverging in form as pre-bound blank albums, or as illustrated books interleaved with blank pages and empty heraldic shields for customisation. My research not only looks at what certain visual motifs mean but also how the choice of medium, colours, and ways of inserting images shape meaning. Many motifs appear repeatedly across different and geographically distant albums, drawing on familiar themes from mythology, vernacular sources, and emblematic tradition. This research also investigates how and why certain images were circulated in alba amicorum, and the layers of meaning attached to specific images during their reproduction and transmission processes.