Affonso africano : poema heroyco : da presa d'Arzilla & Tanger : dirigido a Dom Alvaro de Sousa, capitão da guarda alemãa de S. Magestade, &c.
Affonso africano is a Portuguese heroic poem by Vasco Mausinho de Quebedo, printed in Lisbon by Antonio Aluarez in 1611 and dedicated to Dom Alvaro de Sousa, captain of the royal German guard. The pictures are small repeated woodcut ornaments of a classical urn wreathed with fruit, foliage, ribbons and flowers, with a banded lid and a stepped foot. A designer could reuse the compact symmetrical urn as a modular border or vignette motif.
