Den distelvink. ...
Den distelvink is a 1649 Dutch songbook by the poet Jacob Steendam, printed in Amsterdam for the bookseller Gerrit van Goedesbergh and aimed at general readers of Dutch song. Its pictures are a large decorative initial R, a spread of curling floral ornament, a stylised white-on-black initial H with scrollwork, and lines of blackletter-era Dutch verse, which together offer models for historical ornamental capitals, scroll borders and typographic texture.
