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Justi Lipsii opera

Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606, Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Works · 1602 · Antverpiæ : Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum · 17 pictures

Justi Lipsii opera is a 1602 collected edition of the works of the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius, printed in Antwerp at the Plantin press by Ioannes Moretus. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, a Q and a P, framed in foliage, strapwork and winged figures, dated 1603 in places, showing how a printer used ornamental capitals to open chapters and a designer might borrow their symmetrical framing.

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