De stolatæ virginitatis jure lucubratio academica
A Latin academic dissertation printed in 1680 at Leiden by J. Lindanus and written by Adriaan Beverland, a Dutch scholar, on the stola and virginity, held by Duke University Libraries. The four pictures are printers' ornaments: a decorative initial S, a foliate cartouche, an initial N set against a hatched burst, and a figure in an oval frame with the motto VIRTUS NON TERRITA MONSTRIS. They suggest how seventeenth-century Dutch printers framed initials and motto panels with dense engraved foliage and strapwork for a designer studying early modern book ornament.
