The true convert : or, An exposition upon the XV. chapter of St. Lukes Gospell, containing three parables, the lost sheepe, the lost goat, the lost sonne
A 1632 London religious treatise by Nehemiah Rogers, printed by G. Miller for E. Brewster, offering an exposition of three parables from St. Luke's Gospel for a Puritan readership. The pictures are a repeated decorative headpiece or ornamental band: a large initial letter surrounded by interlacing scrollwork, leafy tendrils, a central vase-like urn with a mask, and small animal or bird motifs. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical strapwork and foliage of early seventeenth-century printed ornament for borders, cartouches, or lettering treatments.
