Mvsei , sive bibliothecae tam priuatae quam publicae extructio, instructio, cura, vsus: libri IV
Mvsei, sive bibliothecae tam priuatae quam publicae extructio, instructio, cura, vsus is a 1635 Latin treatise by Claude Clément on building, equipping, and using private and public libraries, held by Heidelberg University Library. The four pictures are woodcut initials and a decorative headpiece, and they show how 17th-century printers built ornament from scrollwork, grotesque masks, and putti. A designer could take from them the layered letterform construction, with figures and foliage framed inside a capital, and the symmetrical grotesque headpiece.
