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Les cinq livres des Odes, tradvits dv latin en vers françois

Horace, Mondot, Jacques · 1579 · Paris, N. Poncelet · 24 pictures

A 1579 Paris printing by N. Poncelet of Jacques Mondot's French verse translation of Horace's Odes, made for French readers of humanist letters. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments, including a round scrollwork medallion, a three-lobed cartouche and two horizontal strips of foliate scrollwork, which a designer could draw on for border bands, corner pieces and decorative dividers in Renaissance style.

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