Book Title: Ordonnances et edicts royaux de France depuis le Roy S. Loys IX. en l'an 1226, iusques au Roy Charles neusieme à present regnant 1565. : Le tout assemblé en tieres, & rubriques à la façon des pandectes du droit Romain, auec annotations necessaires pour l'intelligence des lieux les plus difficiles / par Pierre Rebuffi, docteur en droict, & aduocat en Parlement ; on y a depuis adiosté plusieurs arrests donnez es Cours souueraines, fondez sur la teneur des ordannances : auec deux tables, l'une des rubriques, l'autre des principales matieres qui y sont contenues

Author: Rebuffi, Pierre, 1487-1557, ed

Image Title: Coins of Europe

Description: This page features a collection of sixteen-century coins minted in Western Europe. The first coin of the left column contains a portrait of Antoine, duke of Lorraine (r. 1508-1544). Below this coin, there appears a coin with a double portrait of King Antoine and Queen Jeanne III of Navarre (r. 1555-1572). The next coin, from Flanders, pairs a portrait of King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598) with his many-quartered coat of arms. Three Spanish reales end this column, and though each carries a different value, they all share the same basic elements: the arms of the co-regency shared by King Ferdinand of Aragon (r. 1479-1516) and Queen Isabella of Castile and León (r. 1474-1504), and the twin symbols of a yoke and arrows. The right column begins with a half-real of Spain, but, unlike the previous coins, this one contains no arms and instead places the yoke and arrows on opposite sides. Below the half-real is another coin featuring Duke Antoine of Lorraine. A novel design appears in the next coin, from Milan, which depicts the city's patron saint and archbishop Ambrose (d. 397) with a whip and crosier; the reverse features PLVS VLTRA, the personal motto of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556). The name of Charles V is a recurring element of the page's final three coins. He appears on horseback, armed from head to toe on a Guelders coin, whose reverse features the city's arms. The last couple of coins pair the Habsburg double eagle with a segment of Charles V's coat of arms.

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