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A very excellent and learned discourse touching the tranquilitie and contentation of the minde : conteining sundry notable instructions and firme consolations most necessarie for all sortes of afflicted persons in these latter dayes

L'Espine, Jean de, 1506?-1597 · 1592 · Cambridge : Printed by John Legate · 30 pictures

A devotional treatise by Jean de L'Espine, printed in Cambridge in 1592 by John Legate for a Protestant readership seeking consolation in hard times. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, large capitals set in interlaced foliage, scrolls and leaves, with the ornament framing the letter like a border a printer could reuse on a page opening.

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