Fratris Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae theologie ad Ptolemeum Gonza. Virum magnificum equitemque auratum contra detractores dialogus
A 1516 Latin treatise by the Carmelite theologian Baptista Mantuanus, printed at Lyon by the Bernard Lescuyer workshop and addressed to Ptolemy Gonzaga, a noble knight, in defence against detractors. The three pictures are a woodcut title frame of a female figure with stylised foliage and a scroll reading Gorgonius Heros, a portrait roundel of the author in a Carmelite hood with a banner of Latin text, and a black-and-white engraved coat of arms with a crest, scrolling mantling and motto ribbon. A designer could draw on the dense, symmetrical woodcut borders and the heraldic ornament for emblem-style layouts.
