Veritas harmonica vtriusque testamenti Alexandro VII. Pontifici ter Maximo
Veritas harmonica is a 1663 Latin religious treatise printed in Rome by Nicolai Angeli Tinassi and dedicated to Pope Alexander VII, written by Sebastião Cesar de Menezes. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: two decorated initials, S and I, framed by leafy scrollwork, a strip of foliate and grotesque ornament, and a tailpiece with a shield flanked by fruiting branches. A designer could draw on their dense hand-cut leaf patterns and contrast of black line on cream paper for borders and display letters.
