Description

An elaborate Baroque poem with emblematic motifs, centered on natural science and mythology was written for Ulrich von Rothheusler (also Rothhäusler / Rothheisler or Rothenheusler, 1653–1699), an abbot at the benedictine monastery in Zwiefalten, Bavaria, and from 1694 to 1696 a member of the presidium of the Benedictine University of Salzburg. Von Rothheusler did extensive building work on the monastery, which since 1686 also housed a lyceum, and founded a Collegium in a Bavarian city Ehingen, which still operates today.

The upper part of the document is decorated with red flowers and tulips, growing from cornu copiae, and the lower part with mithological figures, connected with the text. The two columns on the bottom probably list numbers of members of the monastery in various departments on the left-hand side, and numbers of novices and students on the right-hand side.