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Stella, Johannes · 1507 · Impressũ Basilee : P[er] Michaelẽ Furter ... · 4 pictures

This 1507 printed book, the lives of 230 popes from Saint Peter to Julius II, was issued in Basel by printer Michael Furter and written by Johannes Stella. Its woodcut title page shows an enthroned pope holding a cross and book flanked by two coats of arms, and the decorative border of a putto riding a scrolling vine with a dog-like beast offers a designer a model of dense Renaissance ornament framing a single figure.

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