Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

Preface.

Among all, however, Honorable and Most Learned Master D. Rulande, my especially gracious master and patron, I could find no one more suitable than you: because you still hold some esteem for this art. For I cannot sufficiently praise, much less thank you for, the great kindness you showed me when I was in Lauingen a year ago. Furthermore, the great friendship I have observed and clearly noted between you and the Honorable and Most Learned Master, Nicolao Reusnero, Doctor of both Laws and Rector of the school, my dearly beloved cousins, has not a little driven me to this. Therefore, I address my diligent and...