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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9433279, member: 2844&quot;]uhmmm....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie13" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>You were so lucky!</p><p><br /></p><p>That is certainly an option.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon is classic iconography, with references to ancient Goddesses, but this one looks like the &#039;Patrona Bavariae&#039;:</p><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrona_Bavariae" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrona_Bavariae" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrona_Bavariae</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if it is relevant at all.</p><p>I also don&#039;t know when the Patrona Bavariae was first depicted as we know her now. There is mention of a coin in 1610, which is a century after your book was printed. But the image as such could have existed long before 1610.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I like the name Feyerabend (of one of the printers). Feels so leisurely every time I read it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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