Historia de uita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum principis
A 1508 Latin biography of the Albanian hero Scanderbeg, written by Marin Barleti and printed in Rome by Bernardino dei Vitali for scholarly readers. Its pictures are four woodcut decorative initial letters, a large D and a C, framed in ornate borders of acanthus scrolls, leaves and flowers, offering a designer models for historic letterforms and frame-and-foliage layouts.
