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Magnencij Rabani Mauri De laudib[us] sancte Crucis opus erudicione versu prosaq[ue] mirificum.

Accession number
PML 20987.2
Creator
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.
Published
Phorçheim : In aedibus Thome Anshelmi, 1503.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Edited by Jakob Wimpheling.
Latin with some Greek words.
Publisher, place and date of publication from colophon.
Includes index.
Illustrations (pattern or figure poems) are in red and black, sometimes complete woodcuts, sometimes woodcut with letterpress. Various poetic texts can be derived from the resulting configurations. Explanatory text and a transcript of the poem complements each ill.
The last leaf a blank, lacking.
Description
[x], LIX, [I], XIIII, [II] (last blank) leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm
Classification
Department