Sacrum Oratorium piarum imaginum Immaculatae Mariae et animae creatae ac baptismo, poenitentia, et eucharistia innouatae : ars noua bene viuendi et moriendi, sacris piarum imaginum emblematis figurata & illustrata
A Latin devotional emblem book by Pedro de Bivero, printed at Antwerp in 1634 by the Plantin office for readers of Marian and sacramental meditation. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter built from scrolling acanthus leaves, urns, flowers and fruit, with the ornament filling the letter's body; a designer might take from them the dense, symmetrical capital-letter ornament of early modern printing as a model for decorative drop caps.
