Die vier vnd zwenzig Alten

Otto von Passau, active 1386, Schott, Johann, 1477-1548, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · Strassburg, Johann Schott, 28 Mar. (Samstag vor Halbfasten) 1500. · 75 pictures

This is a 1500 Strasbourg printing by Johann Schott of Otto von Passau's devotional work Die vier vnd zwenzig Alten, a German-language mystical text for lay readers. The four pages show dense blackletter columns of text quoting Jacob, Seneca, Bernhardus and Augustinus on love, virtue and the sins of the wicked, with no decorative images, so a designer might take only the rhythm of the typeface and the tight justified columns as a texture.

Early works to 1800 · France · Incunabula · Mysticism · Strasbourg

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