Elegantiolae.
This is a Latin grammar and rhetoric text, the Elegantiolae by Agostino Dati with commentary by Francesco Negri, printed in Paris by Michel Tholoze in the early sixteenth century for students of Latin. The page shows a woodcut printer's device in a rectangular frame, ringed by a motto in capitals, set above a block of Latin text with a handwritten marginal annotation. A designer might take from it the compact framed emblem and the interplay of classical capitals with a central heraldic mark.
