In librum Iosue breuis commentarius, quem paulò ante mortem absoluit : addita sunt quaedam de eiusdem morbo & obitu
A 1564 Latin commentary on the Book of Joshua by the Genevan reformer Jean Calvin, printed in Geneva by Francois Perrin for a scholarly and religious readership. The four pictures are all versions of one decorative initial letter, a large capital E set inside a dense frame of scrolling foliage and knotwork. A designer could take from them a sixteenth-century printer's ornament: an elaborate woodcut letterform with tangled vine tendrils that works well as a drop cap or historical border motif.
