Tractatus de [con]sanguinitate & affinitate

Costa, Stefano, active 15th century, Valle, Martino della, active 1481-1489, printer, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1489 · Pavia : Martinus de Lavalle, 3 Aug. 1489. · 2 pictures

A 1489 treatise on consanguinity and affinity, the rules of blood and marriage kinship, written by Stefano Costa and printed in Pavia by Martino della Valle, an early printed incunabulum for scholars and jurists. Both pictures are woodcut diagrams: a crowned figure whose body is mapped with kinship degrees in roundels, and a pair of robed figures beneath a branching tree above a grid of labelled circles, showing how a designer could use schematic family-tree layouts with rounded nodes and simple linework.

Consanguinity · Early works to 1800 · Incunabula · Italy · Kinship · Pavia

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