Museum italicum, seu, Collectio veterum scriptorum ex bibliothecis italicis
Museum italicum is a 1687 Latin collection of early Italian ecclesiastical manuscripts edited by Jean Mabillon and Michel Germain and printed in Paris for a scholarly readership of churchmen and antiquarians. The pictures are narrow horizontal headpiece or tailpiece ornaments, a seated central figure with a cross and tools flanked by two scrolling foliate medallions with curling tendrils and a beaded border, which a designer could adapt as a symmetrical strip divider or framing band.
