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Petri Pauli Boschae bibliothecarii, ex sodalitio Sacerdotum Oblatorum, De origine et statu bibliothecae Ambrosianae hemidecas

Bosca, Pietro Paolo, 1632-1699, Bianchi, 17th cent, Laurentino, Cesare, fl. 1657-1689, Montia, Ludovicus, 17th cent · 1672 · Mediolani : Typis Ludouici Montiae · 25 pictures

A 1672 Latin treatise on the origins and state of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, written by the librarian Pietro Paolo Bosca and printed by Ludovico Monti for a scholarly readership of churchmen and librarians. Its four pictures are printed ornaments: a symmetrical scroll panel with a central oval cartouche, a historiated initial P with flowers and leaves, and a frieze of winged putti flanking an urn, all in dense woodcut-style line work that suits decorative borders, frames, and initial letters.

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