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Duplex dissertatio de duobus nummis Diocletiani et Licinii : ex cimelijs sereniss. ac reuerendiss. principis Leopoldi Cardinalis Medicei, cum auctario chronologico de votis decennalibus imperatorum ac caesarum

Noris, Enrico, 1631-1704, Frambotti, Pietro Maria, 17th cent · 1676 · Patavii : Typis Petri Mariae Frambotti bibliopolae · 16 pictures

A Latin numismatic dissertation by Enrico Noris on two Roman coins of Diocletian and Licinius in Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici's cabinet, printed at Padua in 1676 by the bookseller Pietro Maria Frambotti for antiquarian and scholarly readers. The plates reproduce coin obverses and reverses as circular portrait medallions with legends, set among woodcut headbands of dense acanthus scrollwork, grotesque masks, putti and dolphins, plus a printer's device framed in strapwork clouds — usable as rules, cartouches, roundels and border repeats.

Medici, Leopoldo de', 1617-1675 · Coins, Roman

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