La vida y excelencias & miraglos dla sacratissima virgen Maria nuestra señora
A devotional life of the Virgin Mary printed in Seville in 1525 by Juan Varela de Salamanca, with the author recorded as Miguel Perez, a 15th-century writer, and aimed at lay Spanish readers of Marian devotion. Its small woodcuts show scenes in a late medieval style, with figures in flowing robes, haloes, and simple architectural settings, and a designer could take from them the bold black-line carving, dense hatching, and stiff gestural poses typical of early printed books.
