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Christenliches Buß-Lied, Vber den Comet-Sternen, Welcher sich in dem Monat November dieses 1680. Jahrs ... hat sehen lassen

1680 · [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] · 2 pictures

A German Lutheran-era penitential hymn printed in 1680 in an unidentified place, issued as a broadside-style pamphlet about the comet that appeared over Europe in November of that year, held by the Zurich city library. The two pictures are small woodcut-style devices: a floral and fruit ornamental border with a Stadtbibliothek Zürich stamp, and a diagram of a comet with a streaming tail set in a rectangle labelled with compass directions, which a designer could use as a model for schematic celestial charts and ornamental headpieces.

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