Itinerarij terre sancte: inibiq[ue] sacrorum locoru[m]: ac rerum clarissima descriptio: omnibus sacre scripture tractatoribus vtilissima: peramena auditoribus:

Salignac, Barthʹelemy de, active 1550 · 1525 · Veneu[n]t hec opuscula ... Lugduni ... : I[n] edib[us] ... Gilberti de Villiers ... · 13 pictures

This is a 1525 Lyon printed guide to the Holy Land by Barthélemy de Salignac, a work of travel description and scripture commentary aimed at preachers and readers of sacred texts. The pages mix dense black-letter Latin text with woodcut scenes in square and rectangular frames, many depicting biblical episodes such as the Annunciation, the Temple and the Ark. A designer could take from them the compact, boxed woodcut layout and the vigorous hatched line work of early sixteenth-century religious print.

Palestine -- Description and travel

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