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Copilacion breue de vn tratado de sant Buenauentura que se llama: Mistica theologia

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274, Pablos, Juan, d. 1561? prt, Brown, John Nicholas, 1861-1900. fmo RPJCB · 1549 · Mexico : En casa de Juan Pablos · 4 pictures

A devotional treatise by Saint Bonaventure, printed in Mexico City in 1549 by Juan Pablos, the first press in the Americas, for Spanish-speaking readers of mystical theology. The pictures are black-letter Gothic type with ornamental woodcut initials built from interlaced scrollwork, a small devotional roundel of a saint on a title page, and a heraldic bookplate with a shield, crest and scroll; a designer could draw on the decorative initials and the framed, symmetrical title-page layout.

CSAIP · Theology · Mysticism · Imprint 1549

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