Dos tratados : el primero es del Papa y de su autoridad colegido de su vida y dotrina ... el segundo es de la missa
A 1588 Spanish polemical treatise by Cipriano de Valera, printed in London and aimed at Spanish readers, attacking the papacy and the Mass. The pictures are printed decorative initials: a large foliated C with a central stalk, a historiated-style S with twining leaves and a Letter Ta, and a bold L framed by scrolling acanthus-like foliage. A designer could take from them the dense interlaced scrollwork and the contrast between open outline letters and heavy black filigree borders.
