Parrochiale curatorum prestantissimi sacre theologie : necnon jurispontificii doctoris et artium magistri, ac ecclesie Pataviensis canonici domini Michaelis Lochmaier. Huc properate gregis preciosa morte redempti rectores : vobis scribitur iste liber. Condita si vultis hic cuncta revolvere scripta : vobis, et gregibus pascua leta dabunt.
A canon law manual for parish priests (curates) written by Michael Lochmaier, a Passau canon and doctor of theology, printed in Paris in 1509 by Berthold Rembolt for the clergy who ran parishes. The woodcut pages show a gothic title border around a printer's device with a central shield, and a seated bishop-like figure in a arched gothic interior flanked by clergy, framed by dense black-letter text and a large decorated initial with a crowned woodcut figure. A designer could take the heavy black-letter blackletter typography, the ornate woodcut borders, and the tiered architectural frames as models for historical display type and page layout.
