Doctrinale sanct[a]e ac provid[a]e vit[a]e quatuor memoratu digna continens. : Mortem duplicem. Poenas inferni, & purgatorii. Iudicium generale. Beatitudinem aeternam.

Richard, Pierre, active 1519, Badius, Josse, 1462-1535, Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548. RIBRL, former owner · 1519 · Parrhisien[sis] : Impressum aut[em] impe[n]sis & accuratione Iodoci Badii Ascensii in inclyta Parrhisiorum academia: opera Ioan[n]is a prato & Iacobi mercarii socioru[m] · 2 pictures

A 1519 Latin theological treatise on death, hell, purgatory, judgement and eternal blessedness, printed in Paris by Josse Badius Ascensius with associates Jean de Pré and Jacques Mercier, and owned at one time by a former owner recorded by the Rare Books library. The pictures are dense black-letter text pages with large decorated initial letters, some framed in ornamental woodcut borders with foliage and knotwork, set in tightly justified columns with marginal folio numbers. A designer might take from them the strong contrast of heavy display capitals against small compact type, and the framed historiated initial as a model for ornamental letter blocks.

Eschatology · Theology, Doctrinal · Imprint 1519

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