Delle croniche de Frati minori del serafico p. S. Francesco : parte terza ; diuisa in dieci libri ; ne quali si descriuono le vite, e miracoli di ducento e più santi, e sante ; e si racconta la riforma, & osseruanza dell'ordine, & suo accrescimento:
A 1591 Italian Franciscan chronicle, the third part of Marcos da Lisboa's history of the Friars Minor, printed in Venice by Erasmo Viotti for a religious readership. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, a decorative running title with scrolling foliage, and a tile-like initial N framed by trees and hills, useful to a designer for compact framing devices and border ornament.



