De rebus sacris & ecclesiasticis exercitationes historico-criticae. In quibus Cardinalis Baronii Annales, ab anno Christi XXXV, in quo Casaubonus desiit, expenduntur: tum & multa adversus Bellarminum, Lightfootum, Pagium, & alios discutiuntur; plurimique historiae & chronologiae errores emendantur ..
A Latin church-history treatise by Samuel Basnage, printed in Utrecht in 1692 for scholars of ecclesiastical history, critically examining Cardinal Baronius's annals and chronology. Its four pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a fruit-filled urn, a foliate frieze with a central face, a decorated initial A set among leafy scrolls, and two winged putti holding a garland. A designer could take from them a set of period decorative vignettes suited to headpieces, initials, and border ornament.
