Historiae Hieronymi Osorii, Lusitani, Siluensis in Algarbiis episcopi, De rebus; Emmanuelis, Lusitaniae regis ... annis sex, ac viginti, domi forisque gestis, libri duodecim. ... : Item: Io. Matalii Metelli ... in eandem historiam praefatio, et commentarius: de reperta ab Hispanis et Lusitanis, in Occidentis et Orientis Indiam, nauigatione, deq. populorum eius vita, moribus, ac ritibus. ... : Omnia iam recognita & emendata. : Adiectus est; praeter marginis notationes, locupletissimus rerum & verborum index
A Latin history of Portugal's reign of King Manuel I, written by the Portuguese bishop Jerónimo Osório and printed in 1581 at Cologne by the heirs of Arnold Birckmann for scholarly readers. Its pictures are decorative printed initials, one a large D with a grotesque face within foliage and the other an I wrapped in leafy scrollwork, which a designer could draw on for historical ornament and letterforms.
