Ivsti LipsI De militia Romana libri qvinqve : commentarivs ad Polybivm
A 1602 Antwerp edition from the Plantin press of Justus Lipsius's commentary on Polybius's account of the Roman army, with the Latin text and engraved ornaments set for scholars of ancient military history. The four pictures are small woodcut Renaissance decorative pieces: an allegorical female figure flanked by two seated men inside an oval frame, a grotesque horned mask with scrolls, a marked oval medallion with ornamental knots, and a roundel of military standards inscribed LEG XVI. A designer could take from them compact framing devices, symmetrical cartouches and a restrained woodcut vocabulary for historical ornament.
