Americae pars quinta
Americae pars quinta is a 1595 volume published in Frankfurt am Main by Theodor de Bry, with text by Girolamo Benzoni and Urbain Chauveton, issued for a readership interested in the Americas and Columbus. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut or engraved ornaments: decorative strapwork, scrolls, and foliage in fitted panels, with one central cartouche motif repeated across pieces, showing how dense Renaissance ornament can be built as a modular border or header.
