Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, Sive Dissertationes De Moribus, Ritibus, Religione, Regimine, Magistratibus, Legibus ... post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad Annum usque MD: Omnia Illustrantur, Et Confirmantur Ingenti Copia Diplomatum Et Chartarum Veterum, Nunc primùm ex Archivis Italiae depromtarum, Additis Etiam Nummis, Chronicis, Aliisque Monumentis Numquam Antea Editis
Muratori's 1773 Latin study of medieval Italian customs, rites, government and laws, edited from Italian archives and issued for scholars of history and antiquarianism. Its pictures are small woodcut ornamental initials and tailpieces: one framed letter with a walled hilltown and a figure, a cluster of letterforms, a letter S in a scrolled cartouche, and a letter P framing a rural scene with a shepherd, sheep and a distant town. A designer could draw on these for compact decorative capitals, vignette framing and early modern pictorial borders.
