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Scho˜nsperger, Johann, -1520? printer · [Augsburg : Johann Scho˜nsperger] · 18 pictures

A late fifteenth-century German devotional book printed in Augsburg by Johann Schonsperger for lay readers, a short treatise on the bond between God and the soul. Its woodcut pictures show crowned women dancing and playing harp and other instruments, a seated bishop-like figure blessing a kneeling man, and rows of seated figures beneath a banner of clouds and angels, with plain black-line blocks set beside dense blackletter text that a designer could borrow for layout and ornament.

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