Vitas patrum. : Libro de las vidas de los sanctos padres del yermo: segun lo escrinio el glorioso Hieronimo: nueuamente corregido y emendado
A 1553 Spanish printed book, the Libro de las vidas de los sanctos padres del yermo attributed to Saint Jerome, printed in Toledo by Juan de Ayala for a devotional readership of monks and lay Christians. The pictures are small woodcut initials and decorative borders, with carved ornament, interlaced foliage, grotesque faces and dense hatched blocks that suggest sixteenth-century Spanish printing; a designer could draw on their letterforms, frame motifs and grotesque ornament.
