De proprietatibus rerum libri XIX
A 1482 encyclopedia by the English Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus, printed in Lyon by Pierre Hongre for a scholarly readership of clerics and students. Its pages show a large red-and-black decorated initial letter with rubricated capitals beside dense gothic black-letter text, and a red wax seal with a standing figure and lettering, offering a designer ideas for historical initials, letterforms and two-colour page layout.
