Libro de uita contemplatiua, lectione, meditatione, oratione, contemplatione, scala dil paradiso intitulato : cum adaptatione mistica dellhistorie diuine & expositione de suoi misterii et excellentissimi sacramenti
A 1527 Italian devotional treatise on contemplative life and meditation by Antonio Meli, printed in Brescia by Giovanni Antonio Bresciano for Christian readers seeking spiritual practice. Its woodcut vignettes are small framed scenes of Old Testament narrative, such as a kneeling figure before an armed procession, rows of standing figures between vertical posts, and a fortified city with a crowd, all with dense rough-cut line shading that suggests dramatic crowd arrangements for a designer working on historical or allegorical compositions.
