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 1775 Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi is a multi-volume Latin scholarly work on medieval Italian customs, religion, government, laws and documents, edited by Lodovico Antonio Muratori and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framing a miniature townscape of towers, churches and hills under hatched skies, with simple bold outlines a designer could adapt for decorative capitals or lettering frames.
