De manna
A 1648 Latin treatise on manna published in Pavia by J.A. Magrius, written by Jean Chrysostôme Magnen and held by the Wellcome Library, aimed at scholars and physicians. Its pictures are a woodcut decorated initial M framed by leafy foliage and flowers, and a title-page dedication set in large roman capitals with a dedicatee's name and honorifics, showing ornate letterforms a designer could borrow for monograms and historical display type.
