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Bibliotheca scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum

Dionigi, da Genova, Cappuccino, -1695, Scionico, Giovanni Battista · 1691 · Genuae : Ex typographia Ioannis Baptistae Scionici · 7 pictures

A Latin bibliography of Capuchin Franciscan writers, printed in Genoa in 1691 by Giovanni Battista Scionico for a religious readership. Its pictures are small letterpiece and ornament blocks: a flowered mask with garlands, a historiated initial A with a cupid, and a basket of flowers and fruit, all in crisp black woodcut lines suited to decorative borders, initials and vignettes.

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