UItas patru[m] en romance
A 1538 Spanish printed collection of saints' lives, the Vitas patrum in romance, printed in Seville by Juan Cromberger for a lay and devotional readership. Its woodcut initials hold bearded saints in haloes, with a title page framed by ornate Renaissance borders and figures, which offers a designer dense, decorative Gothic-revival framing devices and ready models for historiated letters.
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