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Ein schönes Lied, Vom Leben, Marter vnnd Todt, deß seeligen Vatters Fidelis, Capuciners, welcher in Pündten zu Todt geschlagen werden [i.e. worden]

1631 · bey Leonhard Straub · 3 pictures

A 1631 German broadside song printed by Leonhard Straub, published in Zurich-area Swiss print culture, telling the life, martyrdom and death of the Capuchin friar Fidelis, who was killed in the Grisons. The pictures are small rough woodcut-style prints: a decorative ornamental frieze, a heraldic cartouche with a crowned central emblem, and a standing friar holding a sword and palm beside an inscription block, offering a designer dense ornament, emblem and cartouche forms.

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