Ioannis Mariae Vermiglioli de Vermigliolis ... Consilia criminalia ad defensam in Romana Cvria edita
A 1651 Latin legal treatise by Giovanni Maria Vermiglioli, printed in Rome by the Collinio press, offering criminal defence opinions for use in the Roman Curia. Its pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a grotesque mask with scrolling foliage, a foliate initial C, a large A wrapped in vines and birds, and a papal coat of arms with crossed keys and a tiara. A designer might take the dense, symmetrical scrollwork and the framed initials as models for decorative borders and drop caps.
