Primera parte de Cortés Valeroso, y Mexicana, de Gabriel Lasso de la Vega .
Primera parte de Cortés Valeroso is a 1588 Spanish printed book by Gabriel Lasso de la Vega, issued in Madrid by the Pedro Madrigal press and aimed at Spanish readers of chivalric and historical romance. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, historiated capitals with dense scrolling foliage, flowers and leaf sprays framed in square or rectangular borders, which a designer could use as models for ornamental drop caps, border frames and botanical scroll patterns.














