Novum Testamentum omne, multo quàm antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitu, emedatum ac translatum ... : uná cu annotationibus recognitis, ac magna accessione locupletatis ...
A 1519 Latin edition of the New Testament edited by Erasmus of Rotterdam and printed in Basel by Johann Froben's press for scholars and clergy. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials: the first is a P with foliage, the second a P with a lion or dog-like beast curled inside the bowl, and the fourth an I flanked by grotesque monkey-like figures. A designer could take from them the dense, tangled ornament of early sixteenth-century printed capitals, with animals woven into letterforms.
