Philipo Thomas Howard pr[a]edicatorium etc... In obsequi[i] pignus addictis[s]imus servus Jacobus de Rubeis.
To Philip Thomas Howard … as pledge of obedience, [your] most obliged servant Jacobus de Rubeis. The upper line seems a little unclear to me. "To Philip Thomas Howard" would actually be " Philipo Thomae". Secondly, praedicatorium is a study (room). I was wondering, as Philip Howard had joined the Dominican Order in 1645, if "predicatorium etc" was rather meant to read predicatorum ord, "of the Dominican Order". Mathias > It appears at the bottom of an engraved portrait of the English King James > II. Philip Howard was an English Catholic Cardinal adviser to James and > Jacobus de Rubeis was the engraver but it is not clear to me who is doing > what to whom....I think, but may be wrong, that Howard commissioned the > engraving from Rubeis aka Giacomo de Rossi Any help would be much appreciated. Monica To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
