Descriptio exequialis pompae in templo d. Stanislai inclytae nationis Polonae exhibitae in funere Ioannis tertii Poloniae regis, magni Lithuaniae ducis : sub auspiciis eminentiss. & reuerensiss. principis d.d. Caroli card. Barberini, Poloniae protectoris : et oratio in eodem templo
A Latin funeral description and oration printed in Rome in 1697 by Dominicus Antonius Hercules under Barberini patronage, commemorating King John III Sobieski of Poland and delivered in the Polish national church of St Stanislaus. The pictures are small woodcut initials and a printer's ornament, with one initial 'S' framed in dense foliage and flowers, an 'O' enclosing a dense scene of figures and foliage, and an 'I' flanked by birds and leaves. A designer might take from them the compact, carved energy of baroque-era woodcut framing, with ornament packed tightly into square or oval borders.
