Volumen primum.
A printed ornamental woodcut headpiece from a 16th-century Latin volume, probably of Italian or German origin, with no clear recipient named in its record. The pictures show a bearded mask-like face centred in a symmetrical cartouche of scrolls, swags and pendant ornaments, and a second design with a grotesque head between cornucopias; a designer could take from them the strapwork, cartouche framing and symmetrical bracket structure of Renaissance border ornament.
