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Narratio historica vicissitvdinis rervm quae in inclyto Brittaniae Regno acciderunt, Anno Domini 1553

Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 · 1558 · [s.l.] : Scripta à P. V. · 8 pictures

A 1558 Latin historical narrative by Peter Martyr Vermigli, a Reformation-era Italian theologian, printed without a named place and written about the turbulent events in England during 1553. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, mostly capitals framed in ornamental borders, showing foliage, scrollwork, a human figure and a bird in a circle, offering a designer examples of early printed letterforms and frame ornament.

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