Master Bezaes sermons upon the three first chapters of the Canticle of Canticles : wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated betweene us and the adversarie at this day, especially tovching the trve Iesvs Christ and the trve chvrch, and the certaine & infallible marks both of the one and of the other
A 1587 Oxford printing by I. Barnes of Théodore de Bèze's sermons on the first three chapters of the Song of Songs, translated by John Harmar for an English Protestant readership debating the true church. The pictures are four woodcut decorated initial letters, T and W, with dense scrollwork, leaves and bold outlined capitals, offering a designer models for ornamental display lettering drawn from Renaissance print practice.
