De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus : Aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera

Ravisius Textor, Joannes, ca. 1480-1524, Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520, Pins, Jean de, bishop of Rieux, 1470?-1537, Fregoso, Battista, 1453-1504, Varanus, Valerandus, 16th century, Colines, Simon de, d. 1546, printer. prt · 1521 · Parisiis : Ex aedibus Simonis Colinaei · 188 pictures

A 1521 Paris collection of biographies of notable women, compiled by Joannes Ravisius Textor and others and printed by Simon de Colines for a learned readership. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials, letters set in square frames of dense black ground with pale scrolling foliage, flowers, and interlaced vine tendrils, useful to a designer as models for ornamental capitals and border framing.

Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 · Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380 · Women

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