Joannis Schefferi De antiquorum torquibus syntagma
A Latin scholarly treatise on ancient neck torques by Johannes Scheffer, printed in Stockholm in 1656 for antiquarians and collectors of jewelry history. Its first picture is an emblematic title-page engraving with a winged figure above a globe, flanked by a man with a spade and a man with a compass, and its second is a decorative woodcut initial with scrolling foliage, which a designer might take as a model for allegorical frontispiece composition and for dense ornamental capitals.
