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Luther, Martin, Speratus, Paulus · 1524 · [Melchior Ramminger] · 3 pictures

This is a 1524 Wittenberg hymnal of German Lutheran congregational songs and psalms, compiled by Martin Luther and Paulus Speratus and printed for church singing, held by the Zurich city library. The first picture shows a musical staff with square black notes and German verse beneath, the second a title page with a large blackletter block and woodcut borders of putti, foliage and figures, and the third a library stamp that adds nothing to the design. A designer might take the dense blackletter typography framed by vine-and-figure woodcut borders as a model for ornamental page layout.

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