Della Libraria vaticana ragionamenti

Pansa, Mutio · 1590 · In Roma : Appresso Giouanni Martinelli · 18 pictures

Della Libraria vaticana ragionamenti is a 1590 Italian treatise on the Vatican Library by Mutio Pansa, printed in Rome by Giovanni Martinelli for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are historiated and ornamental initial letters, with the decorative frames built from scrollwork, grotesque masks, cherubs and foliage, which a designer could draw on for letter-based ornament and framing borders.

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana · Libraries · Councils and synods · Alphabet · Libraries -- History · Councils and synods -- Early works to 1800 · Alphabet -- Early works to 1800

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