Dyas orationum de ritu depositionis
A 1666 Strasbourg printed book, issued by the publisher Peter Aubry, containing orations on student initiation rites at the University of Strasbourg, with Latin and German verse captions. The engravings show a crowd of gowned students and townspeople gathered in a courtyard, with a student being forced to lie across a bench or ground while others press in. A designer could take from them the dense crowd compositions, the repeated hatted figures, and the flat architectural backdrops of seventeenth-century German print.
