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Sendtschreyben vnd warhaffte Zeytungen. : Von Auffgang vnd Erweiterung des Christenthumbs, bey den Hayden inn der newen Welt: : auch von Veruolgung vnnd Hailigkait, der gaistlichen apostolischen Vorsteher daselbs, so erst dises Jar, auss den orientischen Indien kommen,

Jesuits, Dobereiner, Philipp, 1535-1577 · 1571 · Gedruckt zu München · 1 picture

A 1571 German letter printed in Munich under the title Sendtschreyben, reporting Jesuit missionary news from the New World and India for a German-reading public. Its page opens with a large decorated woodcut initial D beside blackletter type, with a formal, ornamental text block a designer could borrow for period typography.

Jesuits · Imprint 1571

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