L'alitinonfo di m. Gasparo Scaruffi Regiano, per fare ragione, et concordanza d'oro, e d'argento : che seruirà in vniuersale; tanto per prouedere à gli infiniti abusi del tosare, et guastare monete; quanto per regolare ogni sorte di pagamenti, et ridurre anco tutto il mondo ad vna sola moneta
This is a 1582 treatise on money, coinage and the exchange of gold and silver, written by Gasparo Scaruffi of Reggio and printed in Reggio by Hercoliano Bartoli for merchants, officials and anyone handling currency. The pictures are small woodcut initials, each framed in a square border, with a letter P or E filled by a scene of figures in landscape, some with fire or struggle; a designer could borrow the compact framed-initial format and the lively woodcut hatching for decorative capitals.
