M. Tullius Cicero Mannucciorum commentariis illustratus antiquaeq. lectioni restitutus
A 1583 Venetian imprint of Cicero's works, edited with commentaries by the Manuzio family and printed by the Aldine press for scholars and readers of Latin. Its two pictures are a large historiated initial with foliage scrolling around a letter T beside dense Latin text, and a long horizontal frieze of figures in a carved-looking strip with scrolling ornament. A designer might take the interlaced acanthus borders and the compact initial-letter framing as models for decorative headers and capitals.
