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A 1602 Latin polemical treatise by Justus Calvinus, printed at Mainz by the Albinus press, defending the Roman Catholic Church and the author's conversion to it, aimed at a learned clerical and scholarly readership. The four decorative initials shown are woodcut letters, each framed by ornate scrollwork, leaf and foliage borders, and rounded knotted forms, offering a designer historical models for ornamental capitals, filigree framing, and hatched line shading.
