Bernardini Scardeonii, Canonici Patavini, De antiquitate urbis Patauii, & claris ciuibus Patauinis, libri tres : in quindecim classes distincti : eiusdem appendix De sepulchris insignibus exterorum Patavii iacentium
A 1560 Latin antiquarian treatise by Bernardino Scardeone, canon of Padua, printed in Basel by Nicolaus Episcopius the younger, describing the ancient city of Padua and its notable citizens for scholars and collectors of epitaphs. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts: an oval bird's-eye city view with dense rooftops and towers, and a cropped vignette of a bird on an ornate finial beside a cloud-like ornament, with lettering fragments; a designer could draw on their compact, dense urban layout and the decorative finial as period engraved detail.
