Luculentissima quaeda[m] terrae totius descriptio : cu[m] multis vtilissimis cosmographiae iniciis. Nouaq[ue] [et] q[uam] ante fuit verior Europæ nostræ formatio. Præterea, fluuioru[m]: montiu[m]: prouintiaru[m]: vrbiu[m]: [et] gentium q[uam] plurimoru[m] vetustissima nomina recentioribus admixta vocabulis. Multa etia[m] quæ diligens lector noua vsuiq[ue] futura inueniet . .
A 1515 cosmography printed in Nuremberg by Johann Schöner, a treatise on the world's geography and winds, produced for scholars and lecturers of the period. Its pages mix dense black-letter text with large decorated initials and a woodcut diagram of the globe ringed by wind heads. A designer might take the bold drop-cap capitals with foliate and star motifs, and the compass-like wind-circle diagram for its geometric clarity.
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