Aloe amari sed salubris succi jejunium : quod in aula sermi. utriusque Bauariae Ducis Maximiliani S.R.I. Archidapiferi, electoris, &c.
A 1643 Latin treatise on fasting by the Jesuit writer Jeremias Drexel, printed in Antwerp by the widow of Johannes Cnobbaert for a Bavarian ducal and church audience. Its pictures are small decorative initials: one large woodcut letter T with scrolling foliage and birds, and one letter O with a central flower ornament set within a printed page of dense type. A designer might take from them the compact, letter-based ornament of early seventeenth-century printing, with scrolls and leaves fitted tightly to a capital.
