Image: Quinten Metsys (Massijs), bronze medal of 105 mm, commissioned in 1519 by Desiderius Erasmus
Description: Medal with the portrait of Desiderius Erasmus and on the reverse Terminus, Roman God of the Frontiers. Obverse: . ER . - ROT . /: IMAGO AD VIVA EFFIGIE EXPRESSA - ΤΗΝ ΚΡΕΙΤΤΩ ΤΑ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ ΔΕΙΞΕΙ / 1519 - Erasmus [of] Rotterdam, image formed after life, a better [image] will give my writing. Reverse: TERMI / NVS / CONCEDO - NVLLI / ΟΡΑ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΜΑΚΡΟΥ ΒΙΟΥ MORS VLTIMA LINEA RERV - Terminus, I will Terminus, I give way to no one. Wait the end of a long life, death is the end of everything
Title: Quinten Metsys (Massijs), bronze medal of 105 mm, commissioned in 1519 by Desiderius Erasmus
Credit: Collection Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands, inv. TMNK 17553
Author: Teylers Museum
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