Comitis Camilli Silvestrii Rhodigini In anaglyphum Graecum : interpretatio posthuma ; cui accedunt Dissertationes duae epistolares, altera Joannis Mariae Lancisii archiatri, atque ab intimo cubiculo Clementis XI. P.M., altera ab. Blasii Caryophili neapolitani
A posthumous Latin scholarly work of 1720 printed in Rome by Georgius Plachus, interpreting a Greek relief, with two letters appended by physicians and courtiers for learned readers. The four sample pictures are decorative woodcut and engraved initial letters: a bird inside a letter O framed by acanthus leaves, a foliate I, a Charity-like mother with children inside a C, and a seated figure with scales and cupids beside a large letter I. A designer could take the framed capitals and their mix of foliage, figures and small cherubs as models for ornamental drop caps.
