Dux viae ad vitam puram, piam, perfectam, per exercitia spiritualia, meditationi simul et lectioni accommodatus : juxta normam sacrorum exercitiorum D. Ignatii de Loiola formatus
Dux viae ad vitam puram is a 1667 Latin devotional manual by the Jesuit Jakob Masen, printed at Trier (Augusta Trevirorum) by Christoph Wilhelm Reulandt for Jesuit readers practising Ignatian spiritual exercises and meditation. Its pictures are Baroque engraved frontispieces and ornamental headpieces: the first two show a symmetrical grotesque cartouche with figures and foliage, while the third and fourth show a crowned Christ and a kneeling woman framed by small roundels of scenes. A designer could take the symmetrical cartouche structure and the framed narrative roundels as models for compartmentalised layouts.
