De veteri ritu nuptiarum & jure connubiorum
A Latin legal treatise on ancient Roman marriage rites and marriage law by Barnabé Brisson, Antoine Hotman and François Hotman, printed in Leiden by Franciscus Hackius in 1641 for scholars of Roman law. Its three pictures are the same small woodcut ornament, a printer's headpiece of a grotesque mask with scrolled cartouche and hanging tassels above a spider-like pendant, repeated with slight variations. A designer could take from it a compact, symmetrical emblem for dividing sections or closing a chapter, with strong black linework on a pale ground.
