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Oratio habita in aede Divi Petri in Epiphania

Cortesi, Alessandro, 1460-1490 · Rome : Stephan Plannk · 1 picture

A bookplate, not a page of the book itself, made for collector Sol Eisen and dated 1943 in the lettering at the bottom. It shows a man in a suit and tie in an oval frame, with 'Americana Mexicana Canadiana Incunabula' curved around the top and a stylised open book bearing his name, framed by ornate scrollwork. A designer might take the oval-medallion-and-ribbon layout, with a central portrait and curved lettering, as a model for an emblem or personal seal.

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