[Imitatio Christi. Français :] Le livre intitule eternelle consolacion

Thomas a Kempis · 1500 · Michel Le Noir · 3 pictures

This is a French devotional text from 1500, printed by Michel Le Noir and drawn from Thomas à Kempis's Imitatio Christi for lay readers. The woodcuts are bold, black-line medieval-style prints: one shows a scholar at a writing desk beside an angled lectern, another a crowned enthroned figure with angels, scales and kneeling souls, and the third a printer's shield held up by two figures. A designer could take from them the strong contrast of carved black line, dense hatching and framed vignette compositions.

Religion · Incunables · Incunabula

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