Ethiopia oriental, e varia historia de cousas, notaveis do oriente
A 1609 Portuguese account of Ethiopia and eastern lands by the missionary João dos Santos, printed at the Dominican convent in Évora by Manoel de Lira for a readership interested in ethnology and overseas history. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters, each a capital framed by dense hatched backgrounds with tiny figures and foliage, offering a designer compact, high-contrast decorative capitals with strong black-and-white texture.
