Notitia conciliorvm sanctae ecclesiae : in qua elucidantur exactissimè tùm sacri Canones, tùm veteres, nouique Ecclesiae Ritus, tùm praecipuae partes Ecclesiasticae Historiae
A Latin church history and canon law treatise by Jean Cabassut, printed in Venice in 1669 by Paulus Balleonius for clergy and scholars studying church councils. The pictures are four woodcut decorative initials, three tall I-shaped letters and one C, framed by tangled acanthus leaves, tulips and curling scrollwork in dense black-and-white line. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut botanical ornament of seventeenth-century Venetian letterpress, useful for borders, drop caps and vintage headers.
