Philonis Judaei ... operum, quotquot ad hunc diem haberi potuerunt, tomus prior[-alter]

Philo Alexandrinus, Gelen, Sigmund, Christopherson, John, Woëvre, Jean de · 1561 · excudebat Nicol. Petronillus · 7 pictures

A 1561 Latin edition of the collected works of the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, printed in Lyon by Nicolas Pétremol for a scholarly readership. Its pages show dense black-letter text under large decorated initial letters and a printer's device of a flowering staff entwined with a serpent, arrows, and a hand, with the motto 'Ex labore' and the place name 'Lugduni'. A designer might take the ornamented capitals, the tight justified columns of type, and the emblematic printer's mark as models for a classical, scholarly typographic identity.

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