De inventoribus rerum libri III : S'M.A': De artium inventoribus ad Baffum carmen elegantissimum... ex secunda recognitione
A 1512 Latin treatise on the origins of human inventions by Polydorus Vergilius, with commentary and verse, printed by M. Schurerij and held by the Eisenbibliothek Schlatt. The single picture is a red wax seal impression, a lozenge-shaped sealing mark with a standing robed figure inside a ring of lettering. A designer could take from it the dense, heraldic quality of a seal, with its crisp figure silhouette and curved inscription band framing the image.
