Insulana
Insulana is a 1635 Portuguese-language book by Manoel Thomas, printed in Antwerp at the press of Joan Meursius and held today by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and headpieces, showing letter C frames filled with paired figures among scrolling foliage and a grotesque mask set in flourishes, useful to a designer seeking compact period ornament that can be reused as a border or drop cap.
