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Sanctarum autoritatum veterum catholicae ecclesiae patrum libri quatuor. In usum omnium pietatis amantium ... : quibus accessit breve evangeliorum monotessaron

Bonaventura Heiliger, Broickwy von Königstein, Antonius · 1559 · apud haeredes Ioannis Quentel · 5 pictures

A 1559 Latin patristic anthology of church fathers' authorities, compiled by Bonaventura Heiliger and Antonius Broickwy von Königstein and published by the heirs of Johann Quentel, Cologne, for devout readers. Its pages show dense black-letter text opening with large historiated initials containing foliate and figural woodcut decoration, plus a later engraved classical urn-and-eagle vignette a designer could borrow for ornamental initial letters and pastoral emblem framing.

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