Proteus poeticus palindromus
Subtitle: quem sub metro [chronostichōi], ritè-salutari & verâ pro pace, piorum sexcenties repetita, & ultrà, denuò sic prosequi suspiria
By: spe fidei fecit, Warnerus Oporinus, anno (a) HIs In qVo tanDeM nos LIberet Ipse IehoVa eX trIbVLatIonIbVs (a) (Ps. 37. v. 37.38)
Contributors: Lucius, Peter, -1656, printer
Publisher: Typis exscripsit Petrus Lucius, typ. Acad.
Published: 1638
Place of publication: Rintelii
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Plays on words; Poetry; Early works to 1800; Chronograms; Concrete poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Other titles: Protevs poeticus palindromus
Notes: Consists primarily of 14 Neo-Latin poems constructed solely out of variations on the words "Iesu dux vitae fer tu nova tempora pacis", with many chronograms throughout. On p. [42]-[45], the words are set to music, with additional New Year's lyrics in German.

Publication date from chronogram on title page.

Signatures: A-B¹².

Pages [37]-[38] consist of a folded double leaf, with the words "Iesu dux vitae nova fer tu tempora pacis" set repeatedly in mirrored fashion within a circular frame on p. [37]; text from p. [36] continues on p. [38].

The folded leaf was constructed as follows: the fore-edge bolt of leaves B7.8 was left unopened; leaf B7 was cut away along the inside margin so that double leaf B7.8 (p. [37]-[38]) could be unfolded outward.