La coronica general de España
A 1574 Spanish chronicle of Spain, written by Florián de Ocampo and continued by Ambrosio de Morales, printed at Alcalá de Henares for a Spanish readership. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters set in square frames, with a large decorated capital on a ground of horizontal hatching and simple landscape scenes of hills, towers, and tufts of grass that a designer could borrow for compact decorative initials or period-styled borders.



























































































































































