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Tractatus de sepulturis, capellis, statuis, epitaphijs, & defunctorum munimentis

Dulphus, Florianus · 1641 · Bononiae : Typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij ... · 17 pictures

A Latin canon-law treatise on burial, chapels, statues and epitaphs, printed in Bologna in 1641 by Giovanni Battista Ferroni by an author named Florianus Dulphus, probably for clergy and legal readers. The pictures are small woodcut decorated initials, mostly capitals I, D, P and R, framed by foliage, scrolls and a figure in the first letter, with rough black ink and cut-leaf ornament a designer could borrow for drop caps.

Burial · Sepulchral monuments · Burial laws (Canon law) · Cemeteries (Canon law)

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