PREFACE.

The text concludes the date and formal signature of the author.

... [in the year of Christ’s] birth, one thousand five hundred and seventy-four. On the 3rd of September. original: "III. Septembris"

Your Roman Imperial Majesty’s, etc.

Most humble and

obedient servant / in the same

Bohemian Chamber Book-

keeping office, etc.

The Bohemian Chamber (Behmische Camer) was the central financial administrative body in Prague during the Habsburg period.

Lazarus Ercker

of Saint Ann’s

Mountain.

original: "Sant Anna Berck"; referring to Annaberg in Saxony, a famous and wealthy silver-mining town where Ercker was born.