Io. Bap. Pignae oratio in fvnere divi imp. Ferdinandi caes. avg
A 1564 Latin funeral oration by Giovan Battista Pigna, printed in Ferrara for the death of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, with woodcut decorated initials at its opening. The two pictures are small framed woodcut letters, a P and a Q, with scenes of a chariot and a rider on horseback set inside the letterforms. A designer could take from them the compact framed-initial format, with figures and landscape fitted into the curves of a large capital.
