Oratio funebris dicta honori & memoriae maximi virorum Iosephi Iusti Scaligeri
A funeral oration printed in Leiden in 1609 by Dominique Baudius for the scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger, a Latin text for scholars and readers of classical learning. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: an eagle holding a bundle of arrows beneath a banner reading CONCORDIA, and a historiated initial V showing figures in a decorated frame beside the text. A designer might take from them the compact symmetry of emblem-style devices and the way a large capital letter can hold a whole scene.
