De summo bono libri tres Sancti Isidori, Hyspaliensis Episcopi

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636, Colonia, Arnoldus de, active 1492-1496, printer, Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner, Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1492 · Leipzig, Arnoldus de Colonia [ca. 1492-1496] · 33 pictures

This is a 1492 incunabulum printed in Leipzig by Arnoldus de Colonia, a theological treatise by Saint Isidore of Seville on Christian ethics, aimed at scholars and clergy. Its pages are dense black-letter text in long justified columns, with large red and blue decorated initial capitals and red chapter headings, and a designer might take from them the rhythm of gothic type blocks and the contrast of hand-coloured initials against black print.

Christian ethics · Early church, ca. 30-600 · Early works to 1800 · Germany · History · Incunabula · Leipzig · Theology, Doctrinal

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