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Prudentij opera que in hoc libro continentur. .

Nebrija, Antonio de, 1444?-1522 · 1512 · Fuit impressum presens opus in Ciuitate Lucronij [Logroño] : Per Arnaldumguillermu[m] de Brocario. · 7 pictures

A 1512 edition of the works of the Christian poet Prudentius, edited by Antonio de Nebrija and printed at Logroño by Arnald Guillen de Brocar for a scholarly readership. The pictures are black-letter Latin text set in dense columns, with woodcut historiated initials showing a bearded figure with a crown and sceptre, and a decorative title block of interlaced knotwork, foliage borders and a central circular monogram. A designer could take from them the compact rhythm of gothic type blocks, the framed initial letters and the knotwork ornament.

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