De iis quae scripta sunt physice in libris sacris
A Latin scholarly treatise by Francisco Valles, printed in Lyon in 1588 for a learned readership interested in natural philosophy and scripture. Its pictures are typographic: large decorative initial letters with interlaced foliage and ornamental capitals, plus a title page framed by an architectural arch and a printer's device. A designer could take the historic letterforms, the woven ornamental initials, and the symmetrical arched title-page layout as models.
