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Antiqvitates Gentilismi Nordgaviensis: Das ist, Kurtzer, doch gründlicher Bericht Von dem Heydenthum Der alten Nordgauer

Döderlein, Johann Alexander · 1734 · 5 pictures

A 1734 German antiquarian treatise by Johann Alexander Döderlein, held by Heidelberg University Library, giving a short but thorough account of pagan practices among the ancient inhabitants of the Nordgau region. Its pictures are letterpress-era woodcut ornaments: a looping scrollwork panel, a pair of stylised tulip-like blooms with knotted ribbon, a dense foliate border strip, and a winged cherub frame around a pentagram in radiating light, useful to a designer for historical ornament and decorative framing.

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