Apologia libri de reditibvs ecclesiasticis, a Martino ab Azpilcueta. Super c. ultimo XVI. q. I. sermone primùm Hispano compositi, & ab eodem postea Latinitate donati: aduersus N. in nonnullis ei contradicentem
A Latin legal treatise by the Spanish canonist Martín de Azpilcueta, printed in Lyon by Guillaume Rouillé in 1575, defending his views on church revenues against an opponent. The pictures are small woodcut initials in decorative frames: a figure with foliage beside a large letter, and bold capitals M and P surrounded by scrolling leaves, grapes and curling acanthus. A designer could take from them the dense, historical ornament of sixteenth-century letterpress capitals.
