Psalterion
Psalterion is a Greek-language psalter printed in Venice by Aldo Manuzio, the Venetian printer, with its text edited by Justinus Decadyus and owned by earlier readers Gregorius Haleandius and Casparus Bunnanus. The three pictures are woodcut decorative initials and a border, showing interlaced knotwork letters, a dense geometric block initial, and a vertical strip with a knotted pattern above a small human figure. A designer could take from them the interlace and knotwork forms of early Venetian printing and the way ornamental capitals sit beside Greek type.
