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tangus ◴[] No.44399426[source]
Related to "Last is first", old Spanish books sometimes put at the end of the page the first syllable of the next page. (It was quite disconcerting when I first saw it.)
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1. jfengel ◴[] No.44401660[source]
It was common throughout Europe in the early modern era.

I've got a book of recipes from Williamsburg, Virginia, a kind of outdoor museum LARPing as 1775. The recipes are from various sources, but they typeset it as a period document, including those catchwords. I find it charming.