Enarratio in legem unicam de professoribus qui in urbe Constantinopolitana libro XII C. Quae fuit ab eodem veste purpurea ornato die quarta Januarii M D LVIII
A Latin legal commentary by Jacobus de Novarinis, printed in Lyons by M. Bonhomme in 1558, on professors in Constantinople under the Code. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a symmetrical vertical cartouche, a horizontal foliate border strip, a decorated initial S with scrolling acanthus, and a heraldic shield with a fleur-de-lis under a flourished crest. A designer could take from them the Renaissance scroll-and-acanthus vocabulary and the mirrored symmetry of early printed borders.




