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La coronica general de España

Ocampo, Florián de, 1499?-1555?, Morales, Ambrosio de, 1513-1591 · 1574 · En Alcala : en casa de Iuan Iñiguez de Lequerica, a costa de Diego Martinez · 156 pictures

A 1574 Spanish chronicle of Spain, written by Florián de Ocampo and continued by Ambrosio de Morales, printed at Alcalá de Henares for a Spanish readership. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters set in square frames, with a large decorated capital on a ground of horizontal hatching and simple landscape scenes of hills, towers, and tufts of grass that a designer could borrow for compact decorative initials or period-styled borders.

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