Psalmorum Davidis et aliorum prophetarum, libri quinque : Argumentis & Latina paraphrasi illustrati, ac etiam vario carminum genere latinè expressis
A 1579 Latin psalter by Théodore de Bèze, printed in Geneva, presenting the Psalms of David and other prophets with Latin paraphrases and verse translations for scholarly readers. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a decorated historiated initial D with figures, a foliage-framed initial A, and a frieze of animals processing along the base of a page. A designer could take from them the restrained density of sixteenth-century letter ornament and its strong scale contrast between initials and text.
