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mei/02138620 003 F 075
[02138620]
Den Haag, Huis van het Boek (NL)
: 003 F 075
ISTC No.if00222000
TitleFlores poetarum de virtutibus et vitiis, sive Sententiae
Imprint[Leipzig : Printer of Capotius (Martin Landsberg or Andreas Frisner), about 1486-89]