O principe dos patriarcas S. Bento : ... de sua vida, discursada em emprezas politicas e predicaueis
A 1683 Portuguese devotional book on Saint Benedict, probably printed in Lisbon by Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, combining emblems with biography for a Benedictine and general Catholic readership. Its pictures are symmetrical woodcut-style cartouches and headpieces built from scrolls, foliage, masks and winged figures, with a central medallion showing a bird, offering a designer ready models for ornamental borders, panel frames and baroque decorative symmetry.
