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Libro llamado Thesoro de virtudes muy vtil & copioso.

Isla, Alonso de la · 1543 · Fue impressa ..., enla villa de Medina del Ca[m]po, : por Pedro de Castro impressor de libros. · 7 pictures

A Spanish devotional treatise titled Libro llamado Thesoro de virtudes, compiled by Alonso de la Isla and printed in 1543 at Medina del Campo by Pedro de Castro for readers seeking moral and religious instruction. The pictures are early black-letter typography with a woodcut armorial title border, heraldic shield, and a historiated initial, showing dense serif text in red and black with decorative capitals a designer could borrow for period-style lettering and ornament.

Theological virtues

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