Corona mistica Beate Marie Virginis gloriose

Leeu, Gerard, approximately 1445-1493, printer, Whitfeld, Henry (Book collector), former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1492 · Antwerp, Gerardus Leeu, 6 Oct. 1492. · 25 pictures

This 1492 devotional prayer book was printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu for readers venerating the Virgin Mary. Each page pairs a woodcut crown of stars and flowers above a small scene of a kneeling figure praying in a tiled interior with an altar, a column, and a window or niche. The repeated, simple black-line blocks suggest a clear template for stacked image-and-caption layouts, with the crown motif and checkered floor as usable graphic devices.

Antwerp · Belgium · Blessed virgin, saint · Devotional literature · Early works to 1800 · Incunabula · Mary · Prayers · Prayers and devotions

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