Bibliorum sacrorum cum glossa ordinaria
This is a 1603 Venetian printing of the Latin Bible with the Glossa ordinaria, a medieval interlinear and marginal commentary compiled by Strabus, Nicholas of Lyra, Paul Burgensis and Matthias Toringus for scholars and clergy. The page shows a dense two-column text block surrounding a large woodcut-style diagram of the Temple of Solomon, with plan and elevation views of its columns, arches and lattice-patterned bays. A designer might take the ruled architectural drawings, the compact marginal annotation layout and the contrast between dense small type and a single central diagram as a model for structured reference pages.
