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Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606 · 1606 · Antverpiæ : Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum · 9 pictures

A 1606 Latin devotional treatise by the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius, printed at Antwerp by the Plantin press for Johannes Moretus and concerned with the Virgin Mary's cult at Scherpenheuvel. Its pictures are sixteenth-century woodcut initials and decorative headpieces with grotesques, caryatid-like figures, putti, and festoons, offering a designer models for ornamental capitals, border framing, and Renaissance strapwork.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

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