Hierographia - Romanorum Imperatores

Object summary

Title: Hierographia - Romanorum Imperatores
Object ID: AF-DI-1660
Date made: 1602
Place made: Czech Republic, Praha, Hlavní Mesto, Prague
Maker: Sadeler, Aegidius, II
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Uncolored engraving depicting six medals or seals, with caption text in Latin. Top right medal or seal shows the dolphin wrapped about the anchor and the commonly associated motto, "Festina Lente" (Make haste slowly).

Page 38, pl. 16 of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.