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Thomae Bartholini De armillis veterum schedion ; accessit Olai Wormii De aureo cornu Danico ad Licetum responsio

Bartholin, Thomas, 1616-1680, Bartholin, Caspar, 1655-1738, Worm, Ole, 1588-1654. De aureo cornu Danico ad Licetum responsio, Liceti, Fortunio, 1577-1657, Decker, Cornelis Gerritsz., approximately 1620-1678 · 1676 · Amstelodami : Sumptibus J. Henrici Wetstenii · 13 pictures

A 1676 Amsterdam scholarly treatise by Thomas Bartholin on ancient armbands, with Ole Worm's reply on the Danish golden horn, printed by J. Henrici Wetstenii for learned readers of antiquarian costume and ornament. Its pictures are woodcut historiated initials and small decorative capitals with dense scrollwork, plus a plain horseshoe-like arch figure of an armlet, offering a designer examples of curling foliate framing and early printed letterform decoration.

Decoration and ornament, Germanic · Decoration and ornament, Ancient · Bracelets · Costume

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