Esopus moralisatus cum bono co[m]mento

Walter, of England, Archbishop of Palermo, fl. 1177 · [Cologne : Heinrich Quentill · 1 picture

This is a late fifteenth-century printed Latin edition of Aesop's fables moralised by Walter of England, printed in Cologne by Heinrich Quentell for a scholarly readership. The page shows a dense black-letter text block with a large red and blue decorated initial 'O' and red-printed capitals, and a designer could take from it the rhythm of hand-finished historiated initials on early printed pages.

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