Orus Apollo Niliacus De hieroglyphicis notis
This 1530 Paris edition of Horapollo's Greek treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphs, printed by the Robert Estienne workshop and edited by Bernardinus Trebatius, was made for scholars and humanist readers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a large letter framed with figures such as a bearded head with a laurel wreath, a robed figure and a nude figure among scrolling foliage, offering designers a compact stock of Renaissance ornamental capitals.
