Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, Sive Dissertationes De Moribus, Ritibus, Religione, Regimine, Magistratibus, Legibus ... post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad Annum usque MD: Omnia Illustrantur, Et Confirmantur Ingenti Copia Diplomatum Et Chartarum Veterum, Nunc primùm ex Archivis Italiae depromtarum, Additis Etiam Nummis, Chronicis, Aliisque Monumentis Numquam Antea Editis
Muratori's 1774 Latin study of medieval Italian customs, laws and institutions, edited from Italian archives and issued for scholars of antiquity. Its four historiated initial letters (E, D, I, V) are small woodcuts of towns, towers and fields set inside the capitals, with sparse hatched skies and ground lines that suggest a restrained early-modern printed ornament style useful for decorative capitals and borders.
