De sarcophago marmoreo Probi Anicii, et Probae Faltoniae in Templo Vaticano dissertatio
A Latin scholarly dissertation printed in Rome in 1705 by Gaetano Zenobi, examining an early Christian marble sarcophagus in the Vatican Basilica for a learned readership. Its pictures are crisp black-and-white engravings and woodcuts: a sarcophagus front drawn in plan with carved figures and fluted panels, a cardinal's heraldic shield with tassels, and a historiated initial P with a small figure. A designer might take the ornate scrolling acanthus borders and the decorative capital letter as models for classical typographic ornament.
