Sacra rappresentazione di sette beati fondatori della religione de' Servi
A late sixteenth-century Italian devotional play printed in Florence in 1592 by Michelagnolo di Bartolomeo Sermartelli, telling the story of the seven founders of the Servite order. The pictures are decorative historiated initials and large woodcut capitals framing the opening lines of text, with foliage, scrollwork, and knotted vine ornament that a designer could adapt for monograms, drop caps, and border ornament.
