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Sermon en la profession de la Madre Maria de S. Simon, en el Convento de Religiosas de San Geronimo de la ciudad de Mexico.

Rojo de Costa, Juan · 1668 · En Mexico, : Por la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon. · 1 picture

A 1668 Spanish sermon printed in Mexico City by the widow of Bernardo Calderón for a convent of nuns, marking a nun's profession. The picture is a decorated woodcut initial letter T with foliate ornament, beside a line of black-letter Spanish type. A designer could take from it the framed capital with interlaced leaf scrolls as a model for ornamental drop caps.

Imprint 1668

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