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903Appendices A.6 Città del Vaticano, Vatican Library, Cod. pal. 1919, ff. 68-70; this is a copy in a fluent hand, apperently made by an interested librarian, rather than by Strada’s scribe. B Complete and partial paraphrases: B.1 The Index is paraphrased fully (in Italian) in Strada’s letter, dated Vien- na, 13 August 1578 [doc. 1578-08-13], which was addressed to Rembertus Dodonaeus, but really intended for the Antwerp printer Christophe Plan- tin, who duly responded through his son-in-law Balthasar Moretus [doc. 1578-10-00]. Items from the Index are mentioned in: B.2 Strada’s letter to Duke Alfonso ii of Ferrara, dated Vienna 4 0ctober 1577 [doc. 1577-10-04(b)]: it mentions the Description of Italy [44] and the poly- glot dictionary [1–2]. B.3 Strada’s letter to the Grand Duke Francesco i of Tuscany, dated Vienna 4 0ctober 1577 [doc. 1577-10-04(d)]: it mentions the Description of Italy [In- dex 44], the corpus of inscriptions [3], the polyglot dictionary [1–2], the Biblioteca Greca [21], ‘altri libri scritti arabi’, in particular the Koran [26], chronicles [28], libri di astrologia [29–32], various Arabic, Turkish and Per- sian ‘dictionaria’ [27], a Bible in Arabic [25], and a Picatrix, on necromancy [22]. B.4 Strada’s letter to Duke Guglielmo of Mantua, dated Vienna 4 0ctober 1577 [doc. 1577-10-04(a)]: it only mentions the Description of Italy [44] (Strada asks the Duke information on and illustrations of his territories). C Copyright privilege: C.1 The Index sive catalogus is partially paraphrased in a copyright privilege granted by Rudolf ii and dated Prague, 5 December 1584 [doc. 1584-12- 05]. It mentions: Continuatam seriem et historiam omnium Romanorum, Graecorum sive Constantinopolitanorum, with images based on coins [In- dex 49]; Tomos septem antiquarum inscriptionum [3]; A.A.A. Numismatωn Antiquorum Διασκευέ: [not described in the Index]; similar series of Em- perors with images based on coins [5], and based on ancient sculpture [6]; books describing (or depicting?) the battle order of the Roman army [?14] and the Castrametatio according to Polybius [?12–13]; Phocas’ Bibliotheca in Greek Graeca [21]; an expanded and illustrated Latin edition of Lean- dro Alberti’s Descriptio Italiae [44]; a new, expanded edition of Wolfgang Lazius twelve books Commentariorum reipubblicae Romanaein externis provinciis [46]; and finally a Vita et res gesta Caroli Vti illustrated with coin- images [18].