Description

Uncolored engraving depicting six medals or seals, with caption text in Latin. Seal or medal at bottom left features a doubly spouting whale with stovepipe blowholes, from whose mouth tumble small fishes; the whale is mostly submerged in the sea, save for the head; in the background the sun rises or sets; text on seal reads "Assentatione morior" (By flattery I die).

Page 97 of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.

Type

pencil

Location

lower margin

Inscriber

dates inscriber

Text

"Date 1601 No. 10 Balanae Mag[i?]s"