La solenne et trionfante entrata dell'illustrissimo & reuerendissimo vescouo monsignor Gio. Battista Biglio nell'antichissima & regal città di Pauia : con le allegrezze & archi, con le historie, imprese, emblemi, simboli, gieroglifici, imagini, iscrittioni, versi, sentenze, & motti
A 1609 Italian account of a bishop's ceremonial entry into Pavia, written by Antonio Maria Spelta and printed there by Pietro Bartoli for civic and church audiences. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials and emblematic ornaments, with a framed letter S, a bold N, and a foliate initial E, plus a cartouche enclosing a figure in profile. A designer could take from them the compact, self-contained structure of early printed initials, where dense interlaced scrollwork fills a square frame around a single letter.
