To the Honorable and

Highly Learned Gentleman / MARTI-

NO RVLANDO,

Doctor of Medicine,

Physician to the Count Palatine, and

Physicist in Lauingen on the Danube /

my especially highly-favored Lord and

patron.

A large, highly decorative calligraphic drop cap initial 'E' with elaborate swirling flourishes. Honorable and highly learned Herr D. Ruland, the praiseworthy art of medicine is very finely and skillfully called by many excellent people, Soror Sapientiæ Sister of Wisdom. For just as wisdom keeps the mind of man in check, so that one does not live like an unreasonable wild animal or pig: so tends