Historiated title page border of Johannes Faber's anti-Luther tract
A woodcut border to Johannes Faber's anti-Luther tract printed in 1523. The border consists of four woodcuts depicting a cherub with a bow and arrows atop a decorative column (right), a cherub with a ball atop a decorative column (left), a pair of bucrania flanking a shield with the chi-rho and "EC" on it (bottom), and a group of cherubs (top).
Hittorp, Gottfried, 1490-1573
Cervicornus, Eucharius, active 1516-1547
Cologne (Germany)
Latin
Decoration and ornament
Cherubs (Art)
Columns
Plants in art
Bulls
Skull
Bow and arrow
Balls (Sporting goods)
Chi Rho symbol
Sixteenth century
21 cm (approx.)
Still image
woodcuts (prints)
Quarto
Iohannes Fabri, episcopi Constantiensis In spiritualibus uicarii responsiones duae : quinquagesimaquinta uidelicet, & CXXVI. ex grandi eius uolumine excerptae & selectae, quarum prior est : De Antilogiis seu contradictionibus Martini Lutheri, altera, De Sacramentis scripturisq[ue] & fide.
1523 FABE
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