Tractatus vtilissimus de ornatu mulierum : liber candidum ac liberum lectorem opto, primum itaq[ue] diligenter legito, postea iudicato
A 1526 Latin treatise on women's adornment, written by Orfeo Cancellieri and printed in Bologna by Girolamo Benedetti, addressed to female readers and to the general reader of the time. The picture is a title page framed by a dense woodcut border of architectural columns, arabesque panels, and ornamental cartouches around a central text block, with handwritten marginal notes; a designer could take from it the symmetrical, column-and-panel framing system used for early printed title pages.
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