Ein new Visier büchlein : Welches jnnhelt wie man durch den Quadraten auff eines yeden Lands Eych, ein Rütten zü beraytten, vnd damit yetlichs vnbekants fass Visieren, vnd solches jnnhalt erkennen soll
A 1531 German gauging manual by Johann Frey of Nuremberg, printed by Johann Stuchs for the woodcutter Wolff Resch, teaching merchants and coopers how to measure the contents of casks with a square-based gauging rod. The two pictures are crisp black-and-white woodcuts: a heraldic shield of an eagle and diagonal bands inside a laurel wreath, and an ornamental initial A with a stylised flower and a bird above a dense blackletter line. A designer could take the wreath border, the historiated initial and the tight letter-and-ornament pairing as models for period lettering.
