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 Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, an 1778 Latin scholarly work on medieval Italian customs, religion, government and laws, edited by Lodovico Antonio Muratori for scholars and antiquarians. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters, each an N or M built around a tower, houses and hills in a rough, high-contrast cut, with one open-frame letter set in flat black-and-white strokes; a designer could draw on their compact, bold lettering and townscape silhouettes for decorative capitals.
