Book Title: Heliotropium : seu, Conformatio humanae voluntatis cum divina ... explicata. / ab Hieremia Drexelio

Author: Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638

Image Title: Ornamental Title-Page Border

Description: A kindly-faced sun representing VOLVNTAS DIVINA (divine will) hovers at the top of this ornamental title-page border. Below, two tall sunflowers take in the sunlight, both wrapped in a scroll with an inscription meaning “symbol of human will.” The left sunflower is planted in a pot labeled “Divine will” and decorated with the personal arms of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573–1651). Meanwhile, the right pot, labeled “Human will,” has the personal arms of Maximilian’s wife and Electress-consort Elisabeth of Lorraine (1573–1635)..

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