Author of the Rosarium maius

Meaning

This catalogue designation means the author of the greater Rosarium. Unlike the surrounding personal names, it identifies an authority through a book-title and leaves the person unnamed. The English renders it ‘the author of the Rosarium maius’. Its function is to enlarge the main treatise’s succession of people asserted to have known and possessed the art. The wording alone does not settle the work’s identity, authorship or relation to similarly titled writings; no biographical expansion is required to understand its rhetorical place.