Text in Hebrew. Probably written at Altdorf. The writer’s title is ‘D[octor] et in Universit[ate] Altdorphina P[rofessor] P[ublicus].’
‘Πραγματεὐσασθε ἵως ἔρχομαι.’(?) (Luke, xix. 13.) Dated at Franeker. Addressed to Elias Silberrad. Numbered 175.
‘Domine minor sum cunctis miserationibus Tuis.’ (Genesis, xxxii. 10.) ‘Occultari ad tempus potest veritas, vinci non potest. | Florere ad tempus potest iniquitas, permanere non potest.’ (St Augustine.) Dated at Ulm.
(Engraved by Benjamin Cole. Below the illustration is a dedication to George, Prince of Wales.)
‘Quod Theiologus verè Magnus ÆGIDIUS STRAUCHIUS dicere solitus: Der Pfarrer ist wohl ehraus[?] Werth | Der selbsten lebt wie Er gelehrt | Fecit quod dixit, sicut docuit quoque vixit!’ Dated at Giessen. Numbered 275.
(Drawn and engraved by James Taylor.)
(Engraved by William Faithorne.)
‘Disputandi pruritus | sit | Ecclesiarum Scabies.’ (Sir Henry Wotton.) Dated at Stuttgart.
(The illustration includes a banner bearing the text ‘Quid rides? mutato nomine, de te | Fabula narratur. Horat.’)
Four lines, beginning ‘Verlasse dich auf Menschen nicht’. Probably written at Riga. The writer’s title is ‘Pastor ad D. Johan[nem] in Riga.’
(Engraved by Angus from a drawing by Stothard.)
Text in Arabic. ‘Accende lucernam tuam ante tenebras.’ Dated at Jena.
‘In spe in silentio | Speremus. Veniet tempus gaudendi. | Sileamus. Veniet tempus loquendi.’ (Isaiah, xxx. 15, etc.) ‘Si Deus pro nobis, quis contrà nos?’ (Romans, viii. 31.) Dated at Halle.
(This differs slightly from the frontispiece of the first edition of 1662.)
(Engraved by Abraham Hertochs.)
(‘The following (copied from an old account-book) gives a complete account of my personal expenditure during the summer term 1900’.)
Text in Hebrew. Dated at ‘Berg:’(?).
First words: ‘Pleasure and pain accompany almost every idea …’.