Veterum sophorum sigilla et imagines magicae, sive sculpturae lapidum et gemmarum secundum nomen dei tetragrammaton, cum signatura planetarum et iuxta certos coeli tractus et constellationes, ad stupendos et mirandos effectus producendos. Additur vera eas conficiendi ratio & pro acuenda memoria ac ingenio erectio signaturae Mercurii stupenda ...
A 1612 Latin treatise on magical seals and talismans attributed to Johannes Trithemius, held in the library of C.G. Jung and aimed at scholars and occult practitioners. The two pictures are a black-on-cream heraldic-style bookplate with an angel, shield, grapes and a star, and a crude woodcut emblem of a bearded face framed by scrolls and foliage; a designer could draw on their dense symmetrical ornament, mixed woodcut and emblem vocabulary, and the strong contrast between flat shield shapes and fussy scrollwork.
