Book Title: Prosopographiae heroum atque illustrium uirorum totius Germaniae, pars prima[-tertia] : In hac personarum descriptione omnium tam armis et autoritate, quàm literis & religione totius Germaniae celebrium uirorum uitae & res præclarè gestae bona fide referuntur, à condito mundo, adeo*q[ue] prima linguarum confusione, ad Caroli Magni primi Germanorum Imperatoris tempora, atque annum post Christi Natiuitatem octingentesimum usq[ue]: opus plane nouum et iucundissimum, ex omnium fere gentium chronicis, annalibus, & historijs magna diligentia excerptum: & uiuis heroum imaginibus (quantum fieri potuit) passim illustratum: ac nunc primum ob patriæ decorem in lucem editum. Ita quod instar continuae historiae Germanorum esse queat / Authore Henrico Pantaleone.

Author: Pantaleon, Heinricus, 1522-1595

Image Title: Jacob Ceratinus

Description: An image of the Jacob Ceratinus, the Dutch humanist and scholar of Latin and Greek. Jacob changed his last name from Teyng to Ceratinus, which comes from the Greek word from horn, ostensibly because he was from the city of Hoorn.

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