Bibliorum sacrorum cum glossa ordinaria
A 1603 Latin Bible with the Glossa ordinaria commentary, printed in Venice, its anonymous compiler and glossators including Strabo, Nicholas of Lyra and Paul of Burgos. The picture is a close, crowded woodcut fragment: tangled bodies, a long spear or staff slanting diagonally, and a grotesque face with an open mouth in the lower centre. A designer could take its dense hatching and crowded, cropped composition as a model for tightly packed engraved texture.
