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
Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi is a 1775 scholarly compendium of medieval Italian customs, religion, government and laws, edited by Lodovico Antonio Muratori and drawing on documents from Italian archives for an academic readership. Its pictures are printed seals and seal impressions, mostly circular, with inscriptions split into quadrants around a cross or a cross-and-letters device, and one showing two seated busts of Saints Peter and Paul. A designer could take from them the power of radial text layouts, cross-based quartered compositions and the austere typography of early modern legal documents.
