Asterii Manlii oratio fvnebris : Parmae habita, sexto kal. Nouemb. nomine venerandae Societatis Christi Cruci affixi, cùm illa in aede carmelit. iusta persoluebat Alexandro Farnesio fortiss. apud Belgas proregi
A funeral oration by Asterius Manlius, delivered in Parma in 1593 and printed there by Erasmus Viotus for the Society of Jesus, honouring Alessandro Farnese, the Spanish governor of the Netherlands. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a framed emblem with a reclining figure and a lion-like beast, a cardinal's arms with a fleur-de-lis shield and angels, and an inhabited initial S with a seated woman and a crowned figure. A designer could take from them the dense Renaissance framing of ornate scrollwork, heraldic shields and figurative initial letters for title pages and display type.
