Stella clericorum
Stella clericorum is a late fifteenth-century French printed book of clerical instruction, issued in Paris by the printer Antoine Caillaut before November 1488 and aimed at clergy and churchmen. Its woodcuts are small, black-and-white, and framed, mixing scenes of clerics seated in rows and a figure of authority with a dense heavenly host of winged angels around a central figure. A designer might take from them the crowded framed-panel layouts and the stiff, schematic figure poses typical of early printed books.
