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Fvnerailles et diuerses manieres d'enseuelir des Rommains, Grecs, et autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes

Guichard, Claude, 1545-1607 · 1581 · A Lyon : Par Jean de Tovrnes Imprimeur dv Roy · 6 pictures

Claude Guichard's 1581 Lyon treatise on funeral customs of Romans, Greeks and other peoples, printed by Jean de Tournes for a learned readership. The pictures are decorative historiated and ornamental initial letters in woodcut, with the I, A, M and L at heavy scale, set beside small roman text.

Funeral Rites

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