De Nola opusculum : distinctum, plenum, clarum, doctum, pulcrum, verum, graue, varium, & utile
A 1514 Venetian printed book by Ambrogio Leone of Nola, a humanist treatise on the Italian town of Nola's history, antiquities and customs, written for scholars and later owned by John Adams. The single page shows dense black-letter text in two columns, with a small historiated woodcut initial and a decorated capital opening the passage, offering a designer a model for Renaissance page layout, ornamental initials and the balance of solid text against a small framed image.
