Bellum Christianorum principum, praecipue Gallorum, contra Saracenos, anno salutis M.LXXXVIII. pro terra sancta gestum:
A 1533 Latin history printed in Basel by Henricus Petrus, recounting the Christian princes' crusade against the Saracens for the Holy Land, drawn from a twelfth-century chronicle by Robert of Reims. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and vignettes: the letter A framed by grotesque beasts and figures, a letter I flanked by labourers with tools and a staff, and a sprouting tree-like form with clouds and a hand. A designer could draw on their dense, bold black-line carving, heavy framing borders, and playful grotesque ornament for period-styled initials and borders.
