Caption:
Printing trademark of the Leiden printer Johan Arnold Langerak, depicting Minerva handing out a bull with accompanying badges of honour to a young man. Fame flies above it. In the background a river god. Around the oval the phrase 'Virtute ac studio per orbem Fama perpetitia comparatur'. Oak and olive branches and four weapons, including that of the city of Leiden. On a band the name of Langerak. In the frame a fasces, 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 print the title of the thesis on which David Radaeus graduated from Leiden University under the authority of Rector Magnificus Herman Boerhaave to Doctor of Both Laws on 30 March 1714, Printing Trademark of Johan Arnold Langerak in ornamental frame Title page front: David Radaeus, Disputatio juridica inauguralis de societate, 1714, print maker: B. van Zijl, (mentioned on object), publisher: Johan Arnold Langerak, (mentioned on object), Leiden, 1714, paper, etching, engraving, letterpress printing, h 210 mm × w 150 mm