Brevis & perspicua explicatio Psalmorum Dauidis. Decas prima [-quinta]

Brenz, Johannes, 1499-1570 · 1567 · Tubingae : Apud viduam Ulrici Morhardi · 54 pictures

This is a 1567 Latin commentary on the Psalms by Johannes Brenz, printed in Tübingen by the widow of Ulrich Morhard for scholars and clergy. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, letters H, L and E built from interlaced scrollwork, fleurons and dotted ornament, with the letter forms filling the square block. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical strapwork that fills a letter's counters and the way a single capital can carry an entire ornamental frame.

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