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Ex legibus Ebraeorum forensibus contra magiam, de maleficio ...

Wolff, Johann Daniel · 1694 · Strasbourg : J.F. Spoor · 1 picture

A Latin legal treatise by Johann Daniel Wolff, printed in Strasbourg in 1694 by J.F. Spoor, dealing with Hebrew law against magic and sorcery for a scholarly readership. The single picture is a large decorative initial letter L, a woodcut of dense scrolling foliage with leaf sprays and curled tendrils filling a square field around a plain bold letter. A designer could take from it a model for ornamental capitals and border-filled letterforms in early modern print.

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