Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacro-Sancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum
A Roman Catholic missal printed in Lyon in 1690 for use by priests at Mass, following the decrees of the Council of Trent. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter enclosing a scene: a bearded figure holding an orb inside a radiating S, a man in a landscape within a P, and two figures with a child beside a tall I. These show how a designer can frame a single capital letter with a figurative scene and a border.
