Thordynary of crysten men
The Ordinary of Christian Men, printed in London in 1506 by Wynkyn de Worde at the sign of the Sun in Fleet Street, is a devotional primer for lay readers of the early Tudor period. Its page shows two framed woodcut panels of the twelve apostles, each figure labelled by name beneath, set above a black-letter text; a designer could take from it the rigid repeated grid of saints, the spiky Gothic lettering, and the plain, unshaded line of early woodblock print.
