The institution of a Christen man : conteynynge the exposytion or interpretation of the commune Crede, of the seuen Sacramentes, of the .x. commandementes, and of the Pater noster, and the Aue Maria, iustyfication [and] purgatory
The Institution of a Christen Man is a 1537 devotional and doctrinal treatise issued by the Church of England, printed in London by Thomas Berthelet for a lay Christian readership, explaining the Creed, sacraments, Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. Its pictures are a small black-on-white heraldic shield with crown and two cranes beneath a scroll, and a woodcut historiated initial O beside black-letter text; a designer could take from them the compact logic of a printer's device set against dense, ornamented type.
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