Petri Mocenici, Imperatoris, gesta

Cippico, Coriolano, approximately 1425-approximately 1495, Maler, Bernhard, active 1476-1478, printer, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer, Löslein, Peter, active 1476-approximately 1487, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1477 · Venice, Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477. · 2 pictures

A Latin history of the Venetian doge Pietro Mocenigo, written by Coriolano Cippico and printed in Venice in 1477 by Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, as an early printed incunable. The pictures are not illustrations but two large decorated initials, an open black-and-white historiated letter I with interlaced foliage and a letter D filled with scrolling vine ornament, beside plain text columns; a designer might take from them the dense, framed penwork-like woodcut capitals of early Venetian printing.

Incunabula · Italy · Mocenigo, pietro · Venice

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