Testament Eines sterbenden Menschen/ in Reimens weiß gestellt
A 1667 German devotional songbook, the Testament Eines sterbenden Menschen, written in rhymed verse by Stäffen Brawend and printed for a general religious readership. The title page shows a woodcut of a rural scene with figures in a landscape beneath a hanging title block, and a designer could take its dense, centred typographic layout and crude relief-cut figures as a model for old-world broadside styling.
