Cla. Ptolemaei Inerrantium stellarum significationes
A 1533 Venetian edition of Ptolemy's treatise on the fixed stars, issued by the heirs of Aldus and his father-in-law Andrea for scholars and astronomers. The picture is a title-page ornament: a crowned oval garland of ribbon-tied medallions enclosing a lion, with a shelf label, a rabbit and an owl below. Designers could borrow its symmetrical framing, ribbon-knotted cartouche and the lion-and-owl pairing for emblematic bookplates or heraldic layouts.
