Benedictina lusitana
Benedictina lusitana is a 1644 Portuguese religious history of the Benedictine order by Leão de Santo Thomás, printed in Coimbra at the workshop of Diogo Gomes de Loureiro for monks and scholars. Its pages are dense letterpress set in blackletter-influenced type with large decorated initial capitals, and the frontispiece-style armorial shield with a crown, castle towers and cross-shaped emblems offers a designer ideas for heraldic ornament, title layout and strict typographic hierarchy.
