Benedictina lusitana
Benedictina lusitana is a 1644 Portuguese monastic history by Leão de Santo Thomás and Diogo Gomes de Loureiro, printed in Coimbra for readers interested in Benedictine houses. Its pictures are woodcut historiated initials, a floral ornamental initial, and a decorative strip border in black on white, with a designer able to borrow the bold letter framing and dense foliate pattern for period headers and ornament panels.
