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Delle croniche de Frati minori del serafico p. S. Francesco : parte terza ; diuisa in dieci libri ; ne quali si descriuono le vite, e miracoli di ducento e più santi, e sante ; e si racconta la riforma, & osseruanza dell'ordine, & suo accrescimento:

Marcos, da Lisboa, Bishop, 1511-1591 · 1591 · In Venetia, : presso Erasmo Viotti. · 4 pictures

A 1591 Italian Franciscan chronicle, the third part of Marcos da Lisboa's history of the Friars Minor, printed in Venice by Erasmo Viotti for a religious readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, a decorative running title with scrolling foliage, and a tile-like initial N framed by trees and hills, useful to a designer for compact framing devices and border ornament.

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