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De Virginis Purificatione carmen: Illustrissimo Domino Domino Fabio Feroni Bellavitae Marchioni

Mei, Fillippo, 1670?- · 1683 · Florentiae : [s.n.] · 4 pictures

A Latin devotional poem on the Purification of the Virgin, dedicated to the Marquis Fabio Feroni and printed in Florence in 1683 under the name of Filippo Mei. The four pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a fleshy flowering vine, a flower-filled urn, a strip of interlaced scrollwork, and a decorated historiated initial letter V, showing how dense, hand-cut ornament frames a page of text.

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