Bulla confirmationis et nouae concessionis priuilegiorum omnium ordinum Mendicantium. : cum certis declarationibus decretis [et] inhibitio[n]ibus. S. D. N. D. Pij Papæ V. Motu p[ro]prio

Catholic Church. Pope (1566-1572 : Pius V) · 1568 · Mexici. : Apud Antonium de Spinosa. · 4 pictures

A papal bull issued by Pope Pius V, printed in Mexico City in 1568 by Antonio de Espinosa and held by the John Carter Brown Library, confirming privileges for the mendicant religious orders. The four pictures are woodcut devices: a framed saint with a halo and staff in a flowered border, a title page with a scene of a seated friar receiving a dove-like light, a crucifixion scene flanked by two mourners in a decorative frame, and an oval heraldic cartouche with a stylised emblem. Designers could draw on the dense ornamental woodblock borders and the compact devices as models for early colonial print.

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