Historias de idacio obispo : qve escrivio poco antes qve España se perdiese. De Isidoro, Obispo de Badajoz ... De Sebastiano, Obispo de Salamanca ... De Sampiro, Obispo de Astorga ... De Pelagio, Obispo de Ouiedo ... Nunca hasta agora impressas, con otras notas tocantes a estas historias, y reyes dellas.
A 1615 Spanish chronicle printed in Pamplona by Nicolás de Assiayn, edited by Prudencio de Sandoval, gathering early medieval histories of bishops and kings for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are large woodcut initial letters, each built around a figure of a bishop, king or death skeleton set inside decorative foliage, a dense and graphic vocabulary a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals and dramatic framing.




























