Philalethes
A Latin text page from a 15th-century printed book issued in Nuremberg by Regiomontanus, a work by Maffeo Vegio, printed for scholarly readers. The page shows a large decorative initial C in green and red with interlaced knotwork and vine-like tendrils, beside a block of black type with rubricated paragraph marks. A designer could take from it the tight integration of interlace ornament with dense text setting.
