Réponse de Pierre Ambrum [pseud.] a l'Histoire critique du Vieux Testament

[Simon, Richard, 1636-1712] · 1685 · Rotterdam, Reinier Leers · 2 pictures

A 1685 polemical tract in French, a pseudonymous reply by Pierre Ambrum to Richard Simon's critical history of the Old Testament, printed at Rotterdam by Reinier Leers for a scholarly and theological readership. Its two pictures are small printer's ornaments: a decorative initial O filled with a flowering urn inside foliage, and a printing-house emblem with a seated woman beside a press and stacked volumes under a banner reading 'Pressa Arte Surgit'. A designer could draw on these for emblematic vignettes, classical allegory, and ornamental initial letters.

Simon, Richard, 1638-1712

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