Petri Pithoei Comes theologus, sive, Spicilegium ex sacra messe
Petri Pithoei Comes theologus is a theological miscellany by Pierre Pithou, published in Paris in 1696 by Denis Mariette for a learned clerical readership, with its subject the Lord's Supper. The four pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts: two floral ornament blocks showing flower baskets and bouquets, a decorated initial R beside printed Latin text, and a title page with a central emblem of an eye in a wreath above a printer's imprint. A designer could take from them the compact, symmetrical botanical motifs and the mix of ornate capital letters and centred title-page layout.
