Architectura civilis (Text)
Architectura civilis, a 1628 German architectural treatise by Joseph Furttenbach, held by Heidelberg University Library, written for architects and princely builders describing palaces and building plans. The pictures here are text pages: large decorated initials, black-letter German type, and running headers with plate references, so a designer might take ornamental woodcut initial letters with interlaced foliage and the dense typographic texture of early German printing.
