Emanuelis Lusitan: Algarbior: Africae Aethiopiae Arabiae Persiae Indiae reg. inuictiss: obedientia
This is a 1514 Latin imprint published in Rome by Marcellus Silber, attributed to Diogo Pacheco, an early sixteenth-century author, and addressed to the Pope on behalf of the Portuguese king's obedience. The first picture shows a heraldic achievement with a crested helmet, scrolling acanthus mantling, a shield with a chevron and a bird, and a banner reading Gaudeo. The second shows a title page framed by a woodcut border of foliage and a shield of five blue escutcheons with silver dots under a crown, flanked by the Latin title in capitals. A designer might take the dense foliate borders, the balanced shield-and-scroll layouts, and the blackletter-era capitals as models for emblematic framing.
