Inside Out Library · Explore

Petri Gyllii De topographia Constantinopoleos, et de illivs antiqvitatibvs libri qvatvor

Gilles, Pierre, 1490-1555, Gilles, Pierre, 1490-1555. De Bosporo thracio · 1562 · Lvgdvni : Apvd Gvlielmvm Rovillivm ... · 46 pictures

A 1562 Latin scholarly treatise on the topography and antiquities of Constantinople by Pierre Gilles, printed at Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé for a learned humanist readership. The pictures are four near-identical woodcut decorative initial letters P, each a large serifed capital set in a square frame of leafy scrollwork, with the same design repeated across the pages.

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · More from this library