In omnes Pauli apostoli epistolas, atque etiam in Epistolam ad Hebraeos, & omnes canonicas
A 1565 Latin Bible commentary by Jean Calvin, printed in Geneva by Thomas Curteus for scholars and clergy reading the Pauline and canonical epistles. The pictures are woodcut decorative initial letters, each a large capital framed by interlaced scrollwork, leaves and small rosettes, shown here as the letters E, P, R and P. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical strapwork and foliate ornament typical of sixteenth-century printed capitals.
