Printer’s Device of Anthony Smytegelt

Book Title: Philologus Hebraeo-mixtus, unà cum spicilegio philologico, continente decem quaestionum & positionum præcipuè philologico-Hebraicarum & Iudaicarum centurias. Authore Johanne Leusden ...

Author: Leusden, Johannes, 1624-1699

Image Title: Printer’s Device of Anthony Smytegelt

Description: The printer’s device of Anthony Smytegelt (a. 1665 – 1675) features Minerva sitting beneath an olive tree with an owl at her side. Above her is the Latin motto PALLAS TRAJECTINA SEMPER AUGUSTA meaning “the olive tree in Utrecht is always majestic” and below is the Latin phrase HONOS ALIT ARTES which means “honor fosters the arts”.

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