Iani Gruteri Pericula, id est, Elegiarum libri IV manium gulielmanorum lib. I : epigrammatum libellus : harmosynes sive ocellorum liber primus
Iani Gruteri Pericula is a Latin poetry collection of elegies, epigrams and verse printed at Heidelberg in 1587 by an anonymous printer, held by the Boston Public Library and once owned by Ben Jonson, John Mitford and William Augustus White. The pictures are small woodcut-style printer's ornaments: a symmetrical central figure of a winged or mermaid-like being flanked by leafy scrolls and curling foliage, repeated in near-identical versions, plus a heraldic bookplate with a shield, a banner and a key. A designer could take the tight, mirrored framing and the dense black-and-white scrollwork as a model for compact symmetrical emblems or border motifs.
