Virginidos, ou, Vida da Virgem Senhora Nossa : poema heroico
Virginidos, ou, Vida da Virgem Senhora Nossa is a 1668 Portuguese heroic poem on the life of the Virgin Mary, by Manuel Mendes de Barbuda e Vasconcellos, printed in Lisbon by Diogo Soares de Bulhoens. The pictures are small printed headpieces and tailpieces: three dense, symmetrical baroque ornaments of scrolls, foliage and a central mask, plus a winged cherub among acanthus scrolls. A designer could take from them the compact symmetry of seventeenth-century printer's ornaments for borders, dividers and vignettes.
