Relacion de la execucion del arbitrio, par el remedio de los rescates, en la Isla Española, y comprouacion della
A 1606 Spanish administrative relation, probably printed in Madrid, by Baltasar Lopez de Castro, addressed to the Spanish sovereign Philip III about ransoms on the island of Hispaniola. The single picture is a large decorative initial letter P built from interlaced scrolls, foliage and hatched shading, with small pins or nail-like marks on its stem, and a designer could take its dense, symmetrical ornamental letterform as a model for display capitals.
