Exempla literarum augustalium quibus comprobatur Ius Familiaritatis Augustalis ac Privilegium, quo cavetur, ne inscio Heroldo, quae scribat aut è tenebris eruat, à quoquam imprimatur

Five hundred and fifty-nine. Of our Roman reigns the twenty-ninth, and of others the thirty-third.
Ferdinand

By order of the sacred
Imperial Majesty in person

V.t Seld.

M. Singkhmofer

EXAMPLE OF THE PRIVILEGE, by which it is provided that no one may print the labors of HEROLD against his will.

A decorative initial letter F features a putto or cherub figure.

FERDINAND, by divine favoring clemency, elected Emperor of the Romans, ever Augustus and King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, etc., Infant of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, etc., Margrave of Moravia, etc., Count of Tyrol, etc. To our honest, learned, and faithful beloved of the sacred Roman Empire, BASILIUS IOHANNES HEROLD, Historiographer, Familiar of our Imperial court, Imperial grace and every good. Since it has been recommended and praised to us by no ordinary testimony, and on the part of us ourselves, already before also abundantly perceived, the work which you sedulously expend, in writing histories diligently and in good faith, and also in extracting from the shadows and bringing to light the writings of other ancient