Laurentii Pignorii Patauini De seruis, et eorum apud veteres ministerijs, commentarius : in quo familia, tum urbana, tum rustica, ordine producitur & illustratur
A 1656 Latin commentary by Lorenzo Pignoria on Roman slavery, printed at Padua by Paolo Frambotti, with its woodcut illustrations of ancient objects. The pictures show antiquarian artefacts drawn in close, dense woodcut line: a slave collar and locks, a ring-shaped iron fetter with a keyed bar, and a page of small inscribed tags. A designer might draw on their hatched shading and crisp outlines for historical or antiquarian graphics.
