Instruciones del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion, sumariamente, antignas y nueuas
A 1627 Spanish printed instruction manual on Inquisition procedure, issued by the Royal Press in Madrid and compiled by Gaspar Isidro de Arguello for officials of the Holy Office. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each a large capital E, I, or F built from scrolling acanthus foliage, with birds and grotesque creatures worked into the letter stems and counters, offering designers examples of dense, symmetrical, black-and-white ornamental lettering.
