Andreae Alciati ... De verborvm significatione libri IIII. Eiusdem in titulum XVI. lib. L. Digestorum commentarii, postrema hac editione quanta fieri potuit diligentia, collatione autographi, castigati
A 1572 Latin legal treatise by the jurist Andrea Alciati, printed in Lyon by Antoine Gryphius for scholars of Roman law. Its four pictures are small printed ornaments: black scrolled cartouches with curls, volutes and fleur-de-lis-like finials, set against a warm tan paper ground. A designer could take from them a model for compact, symmetrical Renaissance decorative fillers and scroll-work borders.
