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Epitome da vida, e acçoens de dom Pedro entre os reys de Castella o primeiro deste nome. : Offerecido ao muito alto, e muito poderoso rey D. Affonso VI. nosso senhor.

Cunha, João Nunes da, Conde de S. Vicente, approximately 1619-1668 · 1666 · Lisboa. : Na Officina de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, impressor de Sua Alteza. · 1 picture

A 1666 Portuguese biography of King Pedro I of Castile, written by João Nunes da Cunha, Conde de S. Vicente, and printed in Lisbon by Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello for the young King Afonso VI. The picture is a decorative woodcut initial with a fleshy ornamental border around a circular panel of leafy scrolls and a central bird-like motif, with large black-letter type beside it; a designer might take its dense, symmetrical framing and interlace as a model for ornamental capitals.

Pedro I, King of Castile and Leon, 1334-1369 · Portugal -- History -- Pedro I, 1357-1367 · Imprint 1666

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