Book Title: D. Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Jesu, Rationarium temporum : in partes duae libros tredecim distributum : in quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historiae chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur.

Author: Petau, Denis, 1583-1652

Image Title: Title-Page Border

Description: A Historiated Title-Page Border featuring the Latin title RATIONARIUM TEMPORUM (“the ledger of the times”). The Author’s surname, Petau, sits above the title on the pediment of a statue representing life surrounded by the statues of famous scholars in the colonnade. In the foreground, Father time with his scythe is speaking to Mercury, the Roman god of transitions and boundaries, and a ledger keeper. Joseph Mulder (1658-1742) is the engraver.

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