Instructiones historico-theologicæ : De doctrina Christiana & vario rerum statu, ortisque erroribus & controversis, jam inde à temporibus Apostolicis, ad tempora usque seculi decimi-septimi priora
A Latin theology treatise by John Forbes, published in Amsterdam by the Elzevier press in 1645, on Christian doctrine and the history of its controversies from apostolic times to the seventeenth century. The pictures are repeated versions of one printer's ornament: a bearded mask-like face crowned with a pointed headdress, framed by scrolled strapwork, ribbon bands and leafy volutes with a tassel-like pendant below, a decorative device a designer might borrow for a frame, emblem or heraldic panel.
