Hansoframea; sive Momoscopus; comoedia nova
A Latin comedy by Martin Hayneccius, printed in Leipzig in 1581 by G. Defnerus, for a scholarly and school readership. Its single picture is a dense woodcut title border: an oval cartouche with a classical figure, an obelisk and an inscription band framed by putti, scrollwork, and grotesque ornament. A designer could take from it the symmetrical oval-cartouche layout, the interlocking strapwork frame, and the way text and figures share one crowded border.
