Historia do bemauenturado Sam Ioão de Sahagum, patrão Salamantino, primeyra[-segunda] parte

Mariz, Pedro de, d. 1615, Moreira Cabral, Antonio, d. 1911, (bookplate) · 1609 · Em Lisboa : Per Antonio Aluarez · 49 pictures

A Portuguese devotional biography of Saint John of Sahagún, the Salamanca patron, printed in Lisbon in 1609 by Antonio Álvarez and written by Pedro de Mariz for a readership of Portuguese Catholics. The pictures here are four small woodcut initial letters, D, P, P and N, each framed in a border of scrolling foliage and leaves, showing how a designer might build decorative capitals from plant-filled frames.

Sahagún, Juan de, Saint, ca. 1420-1479

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