Printer’s Device of Gerardus Borstius

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: Printer’s Device of Gerardus Borstius

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Description: The printer’s device of Dutch printer Gerardus Borstius (1650 –1707) features a palm tree with the Latin motto UT PALMA VIRESCIT, which translates “as the palm flourishes,” alluding to righteous in Psalm 92:12 .

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