Appendix ad Speculum co[n]iugiorum

Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, approximately 1507-1584. Speculum coniugiorum · 1571 · Mantuae Carpentanorum. : Excudebat Petrus Cosin. · 1 picture

A 1571 appendix to a Latin treatise on marriage by Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz, printed at Mantua Carpentanorum (Madrid) by Pedro Cosín for a readership concerned with Indians of Mexico. Its single picture is a small printer's device: a diamond-shaped ornamental frame with scrollwork and a phoenix-like bird rising from flames above a tablet bearing the initials and a date. A designer could take from it the compact, symmetrical logic of a diamond cartouche with corner scrolls and stippled border.

Indians of Mexico

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