Omnivm gentivm mores leges et ritvs ex mvltis clarissimis rervm scriptoribus

Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535 · 1520 · Augustae Vindelicorum : Excusa in officina Sigismundi Grim̃ medici, ac Marci Vuirsung · 2 pictures

This 1520 compendium of world customs, laws and rites was compiled by Johannes Boemus and printed in Augsburg by Sigismund Grim and Marcus Wirsung for a learned readership interested in geography and manners. Its pictures are a woodcut title page with a dense Renaissance border of scrollwork, cartouches and figures, and a set of ornamental strapwork panels with curling foliage and grotesque masks, useful to designers studying early sixteenth-century German decorative woodcut framing.

Manners and customs -- Early works to 1800 · Geography -- Early works to 1800

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