Confessio doctrinae Saxonicarum ecclesiarum : scripta anno Domini M.D.LI. ut Synodo Tridentinae exhiberetur
A 1554 Latin theological treatise printed in Leipzig by Valentin Papa, written by Philipp Melanchthon for the Lutheran church and presented to the Council of Trent. The pictures are four small woodcut decorative initials, the first letters of chapters: a flowered E, an S with leafy scrollwork, an ornate black-and-white M with flowing strokes, and an N framed by rows of dots and foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, shaded woodcut letterforms and the mix of foliate ornament with solid-letter contrast typical of sixteenth-century German printing.
