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Sessanta salmi di David : tradotti in rime volgari italiane, secondo la verità del testo hebreo, col cantico di Simeone, e i dieci comandamenti de la Legge : ogni cosa insieme col canto

1566 · [Geneva] : De la stampa di Giovan. Battista Pinerolio · 14 pictures

A 1566 Italian metrical psalter printed in Geneva by Giovanni Battista Pinerolio, a Protestant devotional book of sixty psalms rendered into Italian verse from the Hebrew text. Its four pictures are small decorative initial letters, with a large S and a Q-like letter framed by dense interlaced scrollwork, foliage curls, and dotted leaf ornaments printed in black on cream paper. A designer could draw on these compact woodcut-style initials for borders, drop caps, and historical ornament panels.

Catholic Church · Psalters

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