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
A 1777 Latin scholarly work on medieval Italian antiquities, edited by Lodovico Antonio Muratori and drawn from Italian archives, aimed at historians and antiquarians. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each letter framed with a tiny townscape or hillside view inside its strokes, showing a plain, repeated vocabulary of houses, towers and rolling land that a designer could adapt for decorative capitals or vignettes.
