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Colophon image. From Matthæus Gribaldus Mopha, De methodo et ratione studendi (Lyon: Antonius Vincentius, 1544).
From Gaspar Contarini, Opera (Paris: Sebastianus Nivellius, 1571).
“What will love not do?” Colophon image from: Proclus, Elementa theologica, trans. Francesco Patrizi (Ferrara, 1583). On the pelican’s sacrificing itself for its offspring, see 12 July.
“In me is death, in me is life”. From: Franciscus Patritius, Compendiosa epitome commentariorum… (Paris, 1574). (The pelican was thought to pierce its own breast to nourish its young.)
Frontispiece from Stephanus Chauvin, Lexicon philosophicum, 1692.
Colophon image. From Le tombeau de Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre (Paris: Michel Fezandat, Robert Granjon, 1551).
Colophon image. From: F. Patrizi, De regno et regis instituto (Paris: Jean Charron, 1567).
German tavern, ca. 1500 (Erlangen University Library)
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Colophon image from Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée), Animadversionum aristotelicarum libri XX (Paris: Matthaeus Davîd, 1550).
From Johannes Philoponus, Commentaria in libros posteriorum analiticorum Aristotelis (Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1558).
Colophon image. From Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée), Scholæ in liberales artes (Basileæ: Eusebius Episcopius, 1569).
Colophon image. From Libro terzo delle Rime di diversi nobilissimi et excellentissimi autori nuovamente raccolte (Venice, 1550).