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Conti, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, 1629-1666 · 1698 · 4 pictures

A German-language treatise from 1698 attributed to Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, on the duties of great lords, held by the University of Toronto's Robarts Library and set in a woodcut-style printed text. The pictures are decorative printer's ornaments: a black-on-tan woodcut initial with scrolling flourishes, a larger historiated initial showing a robed figure with a harp beside a palm tree, a fruit-and-foliage headpiece, and a blackletter opening word with curled capitals; a designer could draw on their dense, hand-cut line work and scroll-and-foliage vocabulary for period borders and initials.

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