Breve compendium nationis gloriosae linguae Illyricae : in quo breuiter origo ipsius nationis ostenditur, extensio eius copiosa, reges fidei catholicae totius Dalmatiae, Bosnae, Seruiae atque Rassiae, quos habuit : in fine vero sub vmbra aquilae magnarum alarum Respublica Ragusina feliciter quomodo moratur ...
A 1638 Latin historical treatise on the Illyrian language and nation of Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Ragusa, printed in Madrid by Francisco Martinez and aimed at scholars and church readers. Its pages are dense, letterpress tables of contents with running headers and page numbers, and the one ornament is a woodcut vase of flowers rising from a grotesque face with a sun medallion, a motif a designer could adapt for emblem-style borders or botanical-grotesque decoration.
