A horizontal decorative woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical scrollwork, floral motifs, and stylized foliage.

TO THE MOST NOBLE,

magnificent, strenuous, and most learned Lords,

LORD CONRAD OF THANN

in Romersgehaich and Wordt, Counselor in matters of war to His Sacred Imperial Majesty, and to the most Reverend Abbot of Fulda as a private councilor, also Prefect of Bruckenau, and Captain of the Free Franconian Nobility upon the Rhone and Werra:

LORD GEORGE FREDERICK

of Thann in Kotla, Provincial Councilor of Buchonia,

Lords whom they are perpetually

to observe,

Rodolph Goclenius, Doctor of Medicine, prays for your highest happiness.

With this confidence, most noble and magnificent men, this work of mine