Principia typographica. The block-books, or xylographic delineations of scripture history; issued in Holland, Flanders and Germany, during the fifteenth century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period (1858)
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805-1861 · London, Printed for the author by W. McDowall · leaf 94
d other places in the Netherlands. HOLLAND AND THE LOW COUNTRIES. 57 AGNUS DEI, THE Lamb of God, or the Paschal Lamb. This is one of the very early marks, and was continued in use during the fifteenthcentury, and, no doubt, to a much later period. The Pascal Lamb was the Arms of Rouen (Rothomagi).… … Our first specimen is from a packet of paper at the Hague, containing variouswritings (as Mr, Ottley notes) circa 1356. He does not appear to have met with thesame mark elsewhere, though one somewhat similar, but without the nimbus, occursin the Accounts of the Comtes de Blois, dated 1376 and 1377,…
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