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Primeira[-quarta] parte da historia de S. Domingos : particular do reino e conquistas de Portugal

Cacegas, Luís de, approximately 1540-1610, Sousa, Luís de, 1555?-1632, Encarnacao, Antonio da, d. 1665, Santa Catarina, Lucas de, 1660-1740, Schorquens, Juan, active 1618-1630 · 1623 · [Lisbon] : Impressa no Conuento de S. Dos. de Bemfica por Giraldo de Vinha · 38 pictures

This is a 1623 Portuguese Dominican history printed at the Convent of S. Domingos in Bemfica, Lisbon, for a religious and royal readership, written by Luís de Sousa and others about the order in Portugal. Its four woodcut ornaments are symmetrical vase-and-flower arrangements and a scrolled cartouche with fish-like volutes, showing the flat, bold decorative vocabulary of early Portuguese printing that a designer could borrow for botanical motifs or heraldic frames.

Dominicans

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