Five bookes, of philosophicall comfort, fvll of Christian consolation, written a 1000 yeeres since
A 1609 London edition of Boethius's Five Bookes of Philosophicall Comfort, printed by I. Windet for M. Lownes and translated by I. T., a philosophical and religious text meant for a learned English readership. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, an E-like ornament, a W, a T and a B, framed by scrollwork, foliage and strapwork that show how Jacobean printers ornamented capitals.






























