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 1774 Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi is a scholarly antiquarian treatise, edited by Lodovico Antonio Muratori, on medieval Italian customs, religion, government and laws from the decline of the Roman Empire to 1500, held by Heidelberg University Library. The pictures are small woodcut initials and oval medallion portraits of emperors with Latin inscriptions, one with a view of towers and houses. A designer might take from them the framed capital letter, the coin-style roundel with lettering around its rim, and the compact woodcut vignette.
