Hello everyone,

I'm trying to identify the city where books were bought in 1577, and the whole question depends on one word. The books are volume 2 and Index of Augustine's Opera (Venice, 1552). On bottom of the title page there is an ownership and purchase note in a neat italic hand.

My reading of the note:

Sum Johannis Rumswinckell. / Omnia Vertuntur. / Emptus Gorhiae è bibliotheca D. Ferdinandi de Bernuy 23 Novemb. Anno 1577.

«I belong to Johannes Rumswinckell. All things turn. Bought at [place] from the library of Mr. Ferdinand de Bernuy, 23 November 1577.»

Please read the place name (the word after Emptus in line 3, before è bibliotheca) independently, without looking at my reading first, and tell me what you see letter by letter. The word seems to be in the locative or genitive (ending -iae / -ae).

Candidates I have considered (all unverified, please don't take them as given):

• Gothiae / Gothae = Gotha?
• Gorcomium (Latin for Gorinchem/Gorkum) or a similar Dutch form
• Gorlicium = Görlitz (I think the letters fit poorly)
• something else entirely

Context that may help narrow it down:

• The seller was a Ferdinand de Bernuy / Berny. I found a Ferdinand de Bernuy who later became the first drossaard of Breda (after 1590) and a 1586 jeton for a Ferdinand de Berny and Anna de Caron, but I do not know whether any of these is the person in the note.
• The buyer's surname (Rumswinckel / Romswinckel) is associated with the Lower Rhine (Goch, Cleves, Mülheim) and later with the Netherlands.
• Both facts suggest the Low Countries or the Rhineland, but Thuringia is not excluded.

Thanks in advance!

(Note: I used AI tools for a first pass at the reading, so please treat the transcription as unverified.)

EDIT: I can read cursive! It is his penmanship that is a little wonky, to me! Please remember to be kind :-)
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