res certa erit; eo enim loco is vir est. Sed cupit insignia sua sub finem, et chorographiam a frontispicio operis collocari, quæ tu sumptu tuo curabis sculpi.” The copy in the British Museum has the large map of “Moscovia” dated 1549, followed on the next page by a portrait of the grand-prince seated, with the following lines placed above it:
Sanguinis, imperii titulos a nemine, quavis
Mercatus prece, vel precio, nec legibus ullis
Subditus alterius, sed Christo credulus uni
Emendicatos aliis aspernor honores.”
The colophon runs thus: “Basileæ, ex officina Joannis Oporini, 1551. Mense Julio.” On the verso of the last leaf are the arms of Herberstein.
Five years after, another edition was required, which received the author’s additions and improvements. The title is like the preceding, with the following addition: “Ad heec, non solum nouæ aliquot tabulæ, sed multa etiam alia nunc demum ab ipso autore adiecta sunt: quæ, si cui cum prima editione conferre libeat, facile deprehendet. Cum Caes. et Regiæ Maiest. gratia et privilegio ad decennium. Basileæ. Per Joannem Oporinum”: s. a. (1556), fol., 205 pages, and 16 pages of Index. After the title-page comes Oporinus’s dedication to Daniel Mauchius, who was in Moscow at the time of Herberstein’s second residence in Russia. It is subscribed, “Calendis Julii 1556,” and in it he says that he sends him at last “toties efflagitatam, tantoque jam tempore expectatam Moscoviam”; and in an edition, certainly “longe aliam quam priore editione in publicum
