Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano
A 1625 Latin botanical catalogue by Tobia Aldini and Pietro Castelli, printed in Rome by Iacobi Mascardi, describing rare plants in the Farnese garden for a learned scholarly readership. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials and head-piece ornaments, with foliate scrollwork, flowers, vines, and a bird, offering a designer historical models for ornamental capitals and border frames.
