Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiae & Europae eleganti descriptione : Asia. Historias rerum vbique gestaru[m] cu[m] locorum descriptione, complectitur. Europa, temporum authoris, varias continet historias
Cosmographia, a 1509 Paris printing by Pope Pius II (1405-1464) describing Asia and Europe, issued by printer Henricus Stephanus for a learned readership. The picture is a page of dense black-letter Latin text opening with a large decorated historiated initial H, whose ornate woodcut-style capital and tight justified columns suggest strong typographic drop-cap and text-block ideas for a designer.
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