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The Old and New Testaments

Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549 · 1612 · London : Robert Barker · 31 pictures

A 1612 London psalter and Bible printed by Robert Barker, with Thomas Sternhold's metrical psalms, intended for devotional reading by English Protestant readers. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials, T, T, P and N, each a large letter framed by stylised leafy scrolls, foliage and hatched shading in a sixteenth-century manner, useful to designers seeking historical capitals and border ornament.

Bible · Psalters

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