Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae : compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens, præcipue autem quorum in Actis Lucas, passim autem euangelistæ & apostoli meminere. : Cum addito in fronte libri elencho regionum, urbium, amnium, insularu[m], quorum Nouo Testamento fit mentio, quo expeditius pius lector quæ uelit, inuenire queat.
This 1534 geography of Asia, Africa and Europe was written by the Swiss humanist Joachim Vadianus and printed in Zurich by Christophorus Froschauer for Bible readers who wanted place names from the New Testament. The picture is a page of dense black-letter Latin type opening with a large decorated initial N and a centred heading, so a designer could take its strong capital and tightly set text block as a model for historical typography.
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