Recognitio, summularum reuerendi Patris Illdephonsi a Vera Cruce Augustiniani .
A 1554 Latin logic textbook printed in Mexico City by Juan Pablos (Ioannes Paulus Brissensis), written by the Augustinian friar Alonso de la Vera Cruz for university students of philosophy. Its pages are dense black-letter-style text blocks opening with large decorative initials, the first letters set inside ornamental frames of interlace, foliage, and small figures. A designer can take from them the sturdy hierarchy of a large ornamented capital beside justified columns of text, with ornament kept inside a square or rectangular frame.
