A decorative horizontal band consisting of repeating floral and scrollwork patterns.

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS

AND MOST POWERFUL

PRINCE

AND LORD

LORD

MAURICE,

LANDGRAVE OF HESSE,

Count in Katzenelnbogen, Dietz,

Ziegenhain, and Nidda, etc.

My Most Clement

PRINCE AND LORD.

I pray for eternal health and happiness of soul and body from God, the Best and Greatest.

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE,

A large decorative drop cap 'E' within a square woodcut border featuring foliage and a stylized face at the top center.Although the power and might of our most learned Parent of all things, NATURE, appear everywhere, and often in the smallest, vilest, and most abject things,

Bavarian State Library Munich