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: Thalers of Europe

Description: This page contains images of silver thalers (called jocondales in the text) which circulated in Europe during the sixteenth century. The top left thaler features a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-1556), opposite the arms of the Bavarian town of Kaufbeuren. Below this coin appears one with an image of Saint George slaying a dragon; the other side features the arms of George of Austria, prince-bishop of Liège from 1544 to 1557. The next three thalers contain bust portraits: the first features Augustus I, Elector of Saxony (r. 1553-1586), with his coat of arms; next appears Charles V, opposite the linked arms of Dutch cities Zwolle, Deventer, and Kampen; then appears Albert Albiciades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (r. 1527-1553). The column's final coin is of Basel, Switzerland, and features the city's symbol, a hooked staff resembling a crosier.

Eagles appear in the right column's first two coins: the first, of Freiburg im Breisgau, contains a part-eagle, while the second, of Hamelin, features a church which tops the city's coat of arms. Below these first two, is a thaler themed after the archdiocese of Salzburg: the front side portrays the early-eighth-century bishop Rupert of Salzburg, with the diocese's arms; the reverse contains the arms of Ernst von Bayern, who administered the diocese from 1540 to 1554. Another canonized figure, the late-third-century martyr Ursus of Solothurn appears on the next coin's front side; the reverse features Solothurn's crest. The column's next-to-last coin features the crest of Strasbourg, and the final coin bears the arms of Robert de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liège from 1557 to 1564.

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