Offenbarung der Jesuiter : Durch jhre eigene Antichristische (zu Grätz zusamen gekratzte/ vnd im Jahre 1587. zu Meintz in den Druck gemeuschte) verfelschung des Christlichen Catechismi/ des seligen Mans Gottes/ Doctoris Martini Lutheri: Zur warnung vnd vermanung der waren Catechismus Schüler/ sampt etzlichen Christlichen Liedern/ geschrieben
A 1593 German Lutheran polemic by Ludwig Helmbold, printed by Andreas Hantzsch, warning readers of Luther's catechism against Jesuit distortions and offering Christian hymns for schoolchildren. The single picture is a small woodcut printer's ornament: a cartouche of scrolls, acanthus leaves and a bearded mask-like face with a pendant fruit below. A designer could take its symmetrical, mask-centred framing and dense scroll-and-leaf carving as a model for a decorative headpiece or emblem.
