Printing brand of Johan Arnold Langerak in decorative frame, B. van Zijl, 1716 print Printer's brand of Leiden printer Johan Arnold Langerak, representing Minerva who awardes a bulb with accompanying honorary signs to a young man. The fame flies above that. A river god in the background. Around the oval the meaning "virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetitia comparatur". Therefore, oak and olive branches and four weapons, including that of the city of Leiden. On a banderolle the name of Langerak. In the frame a phases, scales, measuring instruments, an alambic, a snake, books with texts from
Printing brand of Johan Arnold Langerak in decorative frame, B. van Zijl, 1716 print Printer's brand of Leiden printer Johan Arnold Langerak, representing Minerva who awardes a bulb with accompanying honorary signs to a young man. The fame flies above that. A river god in the background. Around the oval the meaning "virtute ac studio per orbem fama perpetitia comparatur". Therefore, oak and olive branches and four weapons, including that of the city of Leiden. On a banderolle the name of Langerak. In the frame a phases, scales, measuring instruments, an alambic, a snake, books with texts from classical antiquity and the portraits of Justinian and Hippocrates. Within the frame in book printing the title of the dissertation on which Johannes Mol at Leiden University under the authority of rector Magnificus Franciscus Fabricius was promoted to a doctor in both rights on 9 June 1716. Leiden paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing Minerva as patroness. Fama as Roman personification. snakes. scales. book. calculating-instruments. container of glass: bottle, jar, vase
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