Trattato del molto R.P. Georgio Scherer, theologo della Compagnia di Iesv & predicatore del ser.mo arciduca Ernesto d'Austria, &c : nel qvale con verissime raggioni proua non esser vero, che gia sia stato in Roma una Donna Pontifice
A 1596 Italian treatise printed in Vienna by Leonardo Nassinger, written by the Jesuit theologian Georg Scherer to argue against the legend of Pope Joan, a woman said to have held the papacy in Rome. The two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments, a leafy fleur-de-lis cartouche and a wreathed armorial device with a crown, eagles and a shield, suited to designers researching early modern title-page decoration and heraldic borders.
