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The Generall demands, of the reverend doctors of divinitie, and ministers of the Gospell in Aberdene, concerning the late covenant, in Scotland : Together, with the answeres, replyes, and duplyes that followed thereupon, in the year, 1638

1663 · Aberdene, Printed by John Forbes · 12 pictures

A 1663 Aberdeen religious controversy pamphlet printed by John Forbes, recording questions and replies between Aberdeen divines and ministers over the 1638 Covenant in Scotland. The pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments: a central grotesque mask flanked by scrolling foliage, a row of crowned Scottish emblems including a thistle and Tudor rose, and large decorative initial letters I and H with hatched backgrounds and acanthus-like scrollwork, useful for designers seeking historical letterform and border ornament.

Solemn League and Covenant (1643)

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