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‘Haud facile Capitur à diabalo [sic], qui bono vacat exercitio.’ (St Jerome.) Probably written at Leipzig. The writer’s title is ‘SS. Theol[ogiæ] Doct[or] et Prof[essor] Publ[icus] in Acad[emia] Lips[iensi] Canonicus Cizens[is]’. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann, assessor of the faculty of philosophy in the University of Leipzig.

Two inscriptions on one sheet, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the quarto. (i) ‘Quamlibet horam puta esse ultimam.’ Motto (‘Symb.’) in Hebrew. Addressed to (Balthasar Friedrich) Saltzmann. Dated at Leipzig. (ii) ‘Inter brachia Salvatoris mei et vivere volo et mori cupio.’ ‘Symb: Iesu Meritum Mea Fiducia.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Est Deus cui et ego curæ sum.’ ‘Symb: Prudens simplicitas.’ Dated at Leipzig. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann. Cf. f. 54r. (ii) ‘Non dubitari potest, quin omnes spes vitæ ac salutis in sola Dei religione posita sit.’ (Lactantius, Epitome.) Dated at Ulm, where Müller was rector between 1671 and 1674. See E. E. von Georgii-Georgenau, Biographische-genealogische Blätter aus und über Schwaben (1879), p. 624.

Motto in Hebrew. Dated at Wittenberg. Addressed to (Balthasar Friedrich) Saltzmann.

‘Non semper æstas erit; facite nidos!’ ‘Symb: Non est mortale quod opto, æterna de-sidero! | Hic vanitas, illic æternitas.’ ‘Quantò amarior Mundus, tantò dulcior JESUS. | Je bittrer Erd’ und Erdenlist, | Je süsser mihr mein JESUS ist!’ (2 Corinthians, vi. 10.) Dated at Giessen. Addressed to Balthasar Friedrich Saltzmann.