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Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153 · 1616 · Venetiis, Ex typographia Salicata · 12 pictures

A Latin theological volume of the works of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, printed in Venice in 1616 by the Salicata press for a learned religious readership. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials, the large letters I, H and A framed by dense foliage, scrollwork and small figures, offering a designer a model for ornamental capitals and historical border-and-initial layouts.

Catholic Church · Theology

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