[Aprovechamiento espiritual. Va dividido en dos partes] ..
A 1596 Spanish devotional text on spiritual life and the Virgin Mary, published in Seville by I. de Leon and written by Francisco Arias. The pictures are ornamental decorated initials, a large letter P in three near-identical versions and a D with a central vase-like motif, all in woodcut style with scrolling foliage. A designer could take from them a set of dense, curling vine-and-leaf framing patterns for display capitals or drop caps in a historical style.
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