Commentarius brevis rerum in orbe Gestarum, : ab anno salutis M.D. vsque In annum M.D. LXXIIII. Ex Optimis quibusque scriptoribus congestus, & nunc recèns non parùm auctus & locupletatus,
A 1574 Latin chronicle by Laurentius Surius and Johannes Nauclerus, printed in Cologne by Gerwin Calenius and the heirs of Johannes Quentel, summarising world history from 1500 to 1574 for scholarly readers. Its page shows a large decorated initial S with foliage, a crowned ruler figure and a robed figure holding a staff beside a dense block of black-letter text, a model for ornamental capitals and woodcut framing.
