Danmarckis Rigis Krønicke
A 1652 Danish chronicle of the kingdom of Denmark by Arild Huitfeldt, printed in Copenhagen at the expense of the bookseller Joachim Moltke for a Danish readership. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, with black interlaced scrolls, foliage and a small figure head on a cream ground. A designer could take from them the dense, heavy black calligraphic flourish of seventeenth-century northern European printing used to open a text.
