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Compendio de las tres gracias de la santa cruzada, : subsidio, y escusado, que Su Santidad concede a la sacra catolica real magd. del rey don Felipe III. nuestro señor, para gastos de la guerra contra infieles, y la pratica dellas, assi en el consejo, como en los iuzgados de los subdelegados.

Pérez de Lara, Alfonso · 1672 · En Leon de Francia : A costa de Pedro Chevalier · 5 pictures

A 1672 Spanish legal compendium by Alfonso Pérez de Lara, printed in Lyon for Pedro Chevalier, on the papal crusade tax grants and their administration for King Philip III's war against infidels. The four woodcut ornaments are printer's decorations: a grotesque mask between scrolling volutes, an interlaced strapwork cartouche with a laurel wreath, a frieze of putti and sea creatures, and a three-masted galleon framed by angels above the motto Ingenium Superat Vires. A designer could draw on their dense strapwork, grotesque faces and nautical emblem for heraldic or baroque border work.

Imprint 1672

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