Drey wunder-schöne Geistliche Lieder
A German hymnal titled Drey wunder-schöne Geistliche Lieder, printed around 1700 by Jacob Anthoni Vulpi and held by the University Library Bern, its title page setting out three sacred songs to be sung to named melodies. The pictures are small woodcuts: a crowded scene of figures in a rustic setting beneath the text, and a flower-filled urn on a scrolled, lobed pedestal. A designer might take from them the compact, hand-cut line and the way a dense block of blackletter type sits beside a modest pictorial vignette.
