Catalogo real, y genealogico de España, ascendencias, y descendencias de nuestros catolicos principes, y monarcas supremos : reformado, y añadido en esta ultima impression, con singulares noticias, curiosos origines de familias, con sejos, ordenes, dignidades ecclesiasticas, y seglares, gloriosos hechos, varios succesos, y nouedades antiguas, dignas de perpetua memoria
A 1656 Spanish royal genealogy and catalogue of Spain's Catholic monarchs, written by Rodrigo Méndez Silva and printed in Madrid for a Spanish readership interested in noble lineages, court orders and dignities. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a strapwork cartouche with grotesque figures, a heraldic shield with towers and crowned heads, and decorative initial letters C and P framed by foliage, useful for designers seeking historical borders, capitals and armorial motifs.
