Sanctuarium Capuanum : opus in quo sacrae res Capuae, et per occasionem plura, tam ad diversas civitates regni pertinentia, quàm per se curiosa continentur
Sanctuarium Capuanum is a 1630 Latin ecclesiastical history of the sacred places of Capua, written by the Neapolitan Dominican Michele Monaco and printed in Naples by Ottavio Beltrano for a Catholic readership interested in saints and church antiquities. Its pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments repeated across pages: a grotesque central mask flanked by winged, clawed figures, with hanging chains, swags, and a small face below, all in dense black line. A designer might take the symmetrical framing device and the bold mask for headers, dividers, or heraldic-style motifs.
