R.P.D. Antoninus Diana Panormitanus ... Coordinatus, seu, Omnes resolutiones morales : eius ipsissimis verbis ad propria loca, & materias fideliter dispositae, ac distributae ..
A 1680 Lyon printing of Antonino Diana's seventeenth-century Catholic moral casuistry and canon law, arranged by topic for priests and confessors. The pictures are woodcut printer's ornaments: a large decorated initial S with flowers and leaves, a cabled R with grapes, an acanthus-scrolled D with a grotesque mask, and a winged cherub above a banner reading Soli Deo Honor et Gloria. A designer might take the dense foliate framing and the grotesque face as models for historical capitals and ex libris-style banners.
