Ioannis Calvini Opuscula omnia in unum volumen collecta : Quibus accessit libellus nuc primùm editus, De aeterna Dei praedestinatione, adversus Albertù Pighium Campensem, & Georgium Siculum. Locorum sacrae Scripturae in his opusculis obiter interpretatoru index
A 1552 Geneva collection of Jean Calvin's theological writings, printed for Reformed Church readers and scholars, shows four repeated decorated initial letters C. Each is a large C filled with dense scrollwork of leafy tendrils and stippled ground, framed by corner foliage. A designer could take from them a model for a stippled, foliate capital letter that reads clearly against a dark textured field.
