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Sibylliakoi chresmoi; hoc est, Sibyllina oracula, ex veteribus codicibus emendata ac restituta, et commentariis diversorum illustrata

Gallé, Servatius, 1627?-1709, Opsopäus, Johannes, 1556-1596, Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609, Gemistus Plethon, George, 15th cent, Psellus, Michael, Astrampsychus, Zoroaster, Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, Boom, Hendrick, 1644-1709, Veris, Johanna, 1648-1712 · 1689 · Amstelodami, apud Henricum & viduam Theodori Boom · 10 pictures

A 1689 Latin edition of the Sibylline Oracles, edited by Servatius Gallé and others and published in Amsterdam by Henricus and the widow of Theodorus Boom for scholars of classical and religious texts. Its pictures are small woodcut headpieces and tailpieces of symmetrical scrolling ornament, one with a central face flanked by fruit and birds and one with an open book above a shield, useful to a designer seeking compact decorative borders and central motifs.

Oracles

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