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De el bien excellencias y obligaciones de el estado clerical y sacerdotal

Sebastián de la Parra, Juan, 1546 or 1550-1622 · 1615 · Impresso en Lima : Por Francisco del Canto · 4 pictures

A Spanish-language clerical treatise on the excellence and duties of the priesthood, written by Juan Sebastián de la Parra and printed in Lima in 1615 by Francisco del Canto for clergy and church readers. Its four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, S, A, D and E, framed in scrolling foliage, a lion, a flowering field, and a winged figure flanked by griffin-like creatures, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and border framing.

Catholic Church -- Clergy · Imprint 1615

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