[Engraved illustrated title page from Triplex philosophia rationalis, naturalis et metaphysica].

Engraved illustrated title page removed from a copy of a baccalaurate thesis published Aug. 12, 1640 by Petro [or Petrus] Laszlofi of the Jesuits' University at Nagyszombat, with his name, like the names of his fellow degree candidates using the same set of thesis engravings, obviously added to the plate by the engraver or printseller for this individual impression.
Signed at lower right: Isaac Maior Scul.
T.p. reads: Triplex philosophia rationalis, naturalis et metaphysica in syntagmata redacta. In universitate Tyrnaviensi... ad disputandum proposita a nobili et erudito d[omi]no Petro Laszlofi De Tard Hung. &c., artium et philosophiae baccalaureo nec non supremae eiusde[m] laureae candidato praeside... Nicolao Vesseleny Societatis Jesu philosophiae doctore... professore ordinario
This plate was evidently one of a set of 4 engravings, including a t.p. and three chapter or section headings, illustrating the theses of 12 doctoral students of Prof. Miklos Wesselenyi at the Jesuits' university at Nagyszombat, published in Bratislava on Aug. 12, 1640. Of the four plates, three of them, including this plate, the engraved t.p., and the plate belonging to Logica, were by Major, with the fourth plate belonging to Metaphysica engraved by Elias Widemann. Cf. Baroque art in Central Europe.
See PML 145850.44, PML 145850.45, and PML 145850.149 for engravings from the same set of thesis prints in the library's holdings.
Mounted as item 187 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy torn at lower left, with some loss to image.