As Capellas Imperfeitas e a lenda das divisas gregas
A 1905 Porto scholarly study by Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos on the Capellas Imperfeitas and the legend of Greek emblems, illustrated with photographs and drawings of carved and lettered devices. The pictures show gothic-style letterforms set in an ornate frame, one a photographic plate of drawn lettering with a scale bar and one a finer engraved or printed version with foliage borders. A designer might take from them the interlaced, angular blackletter-like capitals and the leafy knotwork framing a central medallion as models for emblem or monogram layouts.
