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Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349 · [Germany ?] · 23 pictures

This is a Latin manuscript-era printed commentary by Nicholas of Lyra, a fourteenth-century Franciscan scholar, likely produced in Germany for scholars and clergy reading the Bible. The four pictures show dense two-column pages of blackletter text with red rubricated initials, paragraph marks and running headings, giving a designer a model of early typographic color, hierarchy and the decorative capital letter.

Bible -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800 · Manuscripts, Medieval -- Massachusetts -- Boston · Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Massachusetts -- Boston

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