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Cherub (cutout)

A cherub or “putto” isolated from his background. [more...] [$]

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Cartouche from Dedication Page

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or winged putti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significance of the broad-brimmed hat here. [more...] [$]

Part of the cover

an older manuscript was reused for the binding. [$]

Dedication Page

This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding. [more...] [$]

Scans From Girolamo di Manfredi’s book, Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia, Quae Hanc Materiam pertinent, copiosissime trectantur..., Bologna, printed by Giovanni Rossi, 1564. Plus, it has a really cool cover.

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