Een genoechelike hystorie van den edelen Coninck Karel van Vranckerijck en de vanden vromen ridder Elegast
This is a late fifteenth-century Dutch romance printed in Antwerp by Govaert Bac around 1500, a chivalric tale of Emperor Charlemagne and the knight Elegast aimed at a general reading public. The first picture is a woodcut of a cage-like barred enclosure with a closed chest and a flower-strewn ground beneath a knotted vine border, while the second is a page of black-letter Dutch text opened by a large red decorated initial, showing how red capitals and rubricated headings structured early print. A designer might take the knotted vine border, the bold red initial, and the dense woodcut framing as models for historical display type and ornament.
