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 1776 Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi is a scholarly Latin treatise on medieval Italian customs, law, religion and government, edited from archive documents and issued for antiquarian readers. Its initial letters are woodcut historiated capitals, each framing a small landscape of hills, houses, towers and cloud-streaked skies, a rustic vernacular style a designer could draw on for decorative lettering and vignettes.
