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La expositione del Pater Noster,

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498, Libri, Bartolommeo di, active 1482-1511, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1490 · [Florence, Bartolommeo di Libri, ca. 1490] · 3 pictures

A Florentine incunabulum of about 1490, printed by Bartolommeo di Libri, carrying Girolamo Savonarola's commentary on the Lord's Prayer for devout lay readers. The woodcut frames show Christ praying in a rocky garden with three sleeping disciples below, and a kneeling friar before an altar with a crucifix, both rendered in crisp black-and-white line with simple cut-out forms that suggest bold, legible book illustration for modern graphic reference.

Early works to 1800 · Florence · Incunabula · Italy · Lord's prayer

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