Speculum peccatorum aspirantium ad solidam vitae emendationem, siue, Admiranda S. Augustini conversio : historica eiusdem narratione, discursibus moralibus, et emblematis adornata : cum indice concionum per quatuor octauas eiusdem diui et dominicos dies
A Latin devotional book printed in Antwerp in 1637 by Henricus Aertssens, written by the Jesuit Jan Mantels and illustrated by Pieter de Jode and Erasmus Quellinus for readers seeking moral reform. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a tall letter I framed by stylised acanthus scrolls and clusters of fruit and foliage, with cross-hatched shading and no figures. A designer could take the symmetrical frame structure and the dense leafy border as a model for historical ornamental capitals.
