Tractatvs lvcvlentvs de iuramento litis decisorio
A Latin legal treatise on the oath of decision in litigation, written by Vincentius Caroccius and printed in Venice in 1595 by Damianus Zenarius for lawyers and jurists. Its pictures are four versions of one woodcut decorative initial Q, with a large letter enclosing a circular frame of foliage, tendrils and small animal forms within a border of scrolled leaves; a designer could take from them the compact, symmetrical structure of an early printed capital and its interlaced plant ornament.
