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Opera noua spirituale del beato Egydio romano : che insegna al peccator andare a vita eterna : con belli amaestramẽti de sancti padri ordinis heremitarum S. Augustini

Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316 · 1520 · [Perugia] : Impressum Perusie apud leonẽ op[er]a & industria Cosmi Veroneñ. cognomẽto Blãchini · 1 picture

This is a 1520 Italian devotional book by Giles of Rome, printed in Perugia by Cosmo Blanchini for readers seeking spiritual instruction on the path to eternal life. The single picture is a small woodcut of the crucifixion between two standing figures, set below the title block in a plain black-and-white letterpress layout. A designer might take from it the compact, centred devotional image framed by dense blackletter-style type, a model for religious print pages with a single emblem.

Devotional literature, Italian

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library