TO LEOPOLD I.

EMPEROR

OF THE ROMANS,

Ever August, Just, Pious,

and Fortunate.

Large historiated decorative initial 'N' featuring intricate floral and vine scrollwork.
Plato pronounced, MOST SACRED CAESAR A traditional title for the Holy Roman Emperor, linking him to the ancient Roman Emperors, that nothing is more divine than to know all things; a sentiment expressed with great wisdom and elegance. For just as Science original: "Scientia" – here meaning systematic knowledge or learning illuminates the intellect, polishes the mind, and hunts for eternal Truths; so too, from the love of the most beautiful things, it soon conceives and gives birth to a daughter: Wisdom, the explorer of the highest matters. This Wisdom, having far surpassed the limits of human happiness, joins her followers to the Angelic Choirs, and having been advanced to the ultimate Throne of Divinity, makes them possessors sharing in the Divine nature. And since she takes her counsel from the more divine Court of the World, and toward the unshakable administration of worldly—