On the Secrets of Women and the Virtues of Herbs (1607) - Page 12

⚠This page is a verso with minimal legible original text; it is dominated by heavy mirrored bleed-through from the recto side (backward text) and contains modern library stamps. The original printed text on this side is almost entirely faded or obscured.

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NATIONAL LIBRARY

V[ITTORIO] E[MANUELE] III

NAPLES

This circular blue stamp belongs to the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples, Italy. Vittorio Emanuele III was the King of Italy from 1900 to 1946, and the library was renamed in his honor in 1922.

The rest of this page is largely blank, but it is heavily obscured by "bleed-through"—ink from the following page that has seeped through the paper over centuries, appearing as mirrored or backward text. Among these faint traces, one can discern the headings for the next section: "SECOND APOLOGY CONCERNING THE ORIGIN AND..." original: "Apologia Secunda de ortu et..." and at the bottom, "TO THE READER" original: "Ad Lectorem".