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Epigraphica, siue, Elogia inscriptionesque quoduis genus pangendi ratio : vbi de inscribendis tabulis, symbolis, clypeis, trophaeis, donarijs, obeliscis, aris, tumulis, musaeis, hortis, villis, fontibus, et si qua sunt alia huiusmodi monumenta, facili methodo dissertatur : subiectisque exemplis antiquis, ac recentibus : nonnullis etiam ex vtrisque nondum vilgatis praecepta dilucidantur

Boldoni, Ottavio, Bishop of Teano, 1600-1680 · 1660 · Augustae Perusiae [Perugia] : Ex typographia camerali, & episcopali : Apnd [sic] Bartolos, & Angelum Laurentium · 11 pictures

Epigraphica is a 1660 Latin treatise on writing inscriptions and monumental epigraphy by Ottavio Boldoni, Bishop of Teano, printed at Perugia for scholars and those who commissioned memorial texts. Its woodcut ornaments show flower baskets and urns with floral sprays, the kind of simple vessel-and-bloom motif a designer could adapt for botanical borders, labels, or decorative panels.

Inscriptions, Latin

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