Book Title: The glory of their times ; Or, The lives of ye primitive fathers, containing their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths.

Author: Lupton, Donald, d. 1676

Image Title: Historiated Title-Page Border

Description: The title page of Daniel Lupton’s work The Glory of Their Times: The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, which features images of the holy spirit in the form of a dove descending on a group of saints over images of the “four doctors”: (starting from the top left and moving clockwise) Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, and Gregory the Great. The engraver, George Glover (fl. 1620-1645) has placed his signature at the bottom center.

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