DEDICATION.

blessed welfare This continues the thought from the previous page: "wishes of good fortune [and] blessed welfare.", and to accept and receive it with love; [and that you] be and remain my most favorable Lord. This I shall repay in turn to the utmost of my ability, and I am also ready and diligent toward that end, herewith commending all of us together to Divine protection.

Given at Frankfurt, on the Day of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle original Latin: in Die conuersionis S. Pauli Apostoli. This religious feast day falls on January 25th., in the year of our salvation 1602.

Your Reverence and

Excellence’s

Obedient Servant

Nicolaus Stei-

nius, Notary and

Bookseller.

original Latin abbreviations: Not. & Bibliop. (Notarius & Bibliopola). Nicolaus Steinius was a known publisher and notary active in Frankfurt at the turn of the 17th century.