Origenis Adamantii, eximii scripturarum interpretis, opera, quae quidem extant omnia, per ... Erasmum Roterodamum partim versa, & vigilanter recognita, partim ab aliis ... translata ... cum praefatione de vita, phrasi, docendi ratione, & operibus illius: adiectis epistola Beati Rhenani nuncupatoria, quae pleraque de vita obituque ipsius Erasmi cognitu digna continet: tum indice copiosissimo
A 1557 Latin edition of the collected works of the early Christian scripture commentator Origen, edited and translated by Erasmus and printed by the Frobenius press, with a prefatory life and a biographical letter by Beatus Rhenanus; its two pictures are a printer's device and a bookplate. The printer's device shows a caduceus-like staff entwined by serpents with a bird perched at the top, flanked by two clasping hands and the letters FRO and BEN, a mark a designer could adapt for a publisher's emblem. The second picture is an ex libris bookplate with a winged angel holding a coat of arms, a star, cross and grapes, with a Latin motto, which suggests a heraldic layout for a personal label.
