Monumenta Paderbornensia: Ex Historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta, Novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis ac notis posthumis Ferdinandi principis Textui passim insertis, illustrata
Monumenta Paderbornensia is a 1714 antiquarian history of Paderborn, compiled by Johannes Horrion and Johann Sigismund Seltmann from the posthumous notes of Ferdinand von Fürstenberg, and aimed at scholars of Roman and Frankish history. Its pictures are small etched town views and landscapes, each with a scroll-shaped title cartouche, showing towns on distant rises, riders crossing open country and figures resting in foreground fields. A designer might take from them the sparse, horizon-led composition of early modern topographic prints, with tiny figures set against broad fields.
