Asia
Asia is a Portuguese history of the East Indies written by João de Barros and printed in Lisbon in 1552 by Germão Galharde, aimed at readers interested in Portuguese voyages of discovery. The three pictures are pages of dense black-letter text in Portuguese, each opening with a large decorated initial letter in a framed box, with a woodcut-style ornamental border and ruled margins that a designer could borrow for typographic layouts and drop-cap treatments.
