Ioannis Calvini Tractatus theologici omnes : in unum volumen certis classibus congesti : quorum aliqui nec latine nec gallicè prius editi fuerunt
A collected 1597 edition of John Calvin's theological treatises, printed in Geneva by Pierre de Saint-André for a Reformed Church readership of scholars and clergy. The pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a large decorated initial C framed by foliage and grotesque figures, and a head-band strip of scrolling vines with small putti and animals. A designer could draw on the dense, symmetrical scrollwork and the framed letter as a model for ornamental initials.
