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A 1574 Latin and Greek edition of the Hermetic Pimander, printed at Bordeaux by Simon Millanges and edited by François de Foix, comte de Candale, for scholars of occult and philosophical texts. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, the large letters Q and I, framed by curling acanthus leaves and foliage in a Renaissance manner; a designer could draw on their interlaced vine borders and the contrast between open, flowing outlines and dense inner ornament.
