Simboli predicabili estratti da sacri evangeli che corrono nella quadragesima
A Lenten sermon collection printed in Ferrara in 1692 by B. Barbieri, compiled by Carlo Labia with Antonio Zanchi and Isabella Piccini, for preachers during Quadragesima. The pictures are small decorative printer's ornaments: a symmetrical scrolled cartouche with acanthus leaves and a pendant bud, an initial letter Q framed by foliage, an N with its stroke over interlaced leafy knotwork, and a bearded mask with horn-like volutes and flowers. A designer could borrow the bilateral scroll pendants, framed initial letters and mask-and-foliage motifs for historical headers, borders and capitals.
