Title page & translation to a 1580 book on Metallurgy* by Lazarus Ercker:
Beschreibung
Allerfürnemisten
mineralischen Ertzt unnd
Bergkwercks Arten:
[Description of the most Noble of all mineral Ores and Types of Mine]
wie dieselbigen, unnd eine jede in Sonderheit jrer Natur und Eigenschafft nach, auss alle Metaln probirt und im kleinen Fewer sollen versucht werden:
[how the same are Assayed from all Metals and are to be Investigated in a small Fire, each in the peculiarity of its Nature and in accord with its properties]
mit Erklärung etlicher fürnehmer nützlichen Schmeltzwerck, im grossen Fewer auch Scheidung Goldts, Silbers, unnd and erer Metaln:
[with Explanation of the genuine, noble, useful Smelting-works, and the isolation in the great Fire of Gold, Silver, and other Metals]
sampt einem Bericht dess Kupffersaigerns, Messing brennens, und Salpeter siedens:
[together with a Report on the refinement of Copper, the calcining of Brass, and the boiling of Saltpeter]
auch aller saltzigen Minerischen proben, und was denen allen anhengig:
[also the testing of all salty Minerals and what pertains to all of them]
in funff Bücher verfast, dessgleichen zuuorn niemals in Druck kommen.
[comprised in five Books, the like of which have never before been Published]