Septem principum angelorum : orationes cum antiquis imaginibus
A 1555 Neapolitan prayer book by Antonio Duca, printed by Vincenzo Luchino and Antonio Pace, devoted to the seven archangels and intended for devotional use by the Catholic faithful. Its pages pair short prayers with framed engravings of angels in rows, groups and single standing figures, arranged in tiers and crowded panels. A designer might take the tiered, densely packed compositions, the halos and wings as a repeated visual vocabulary, and the labelled figures under arched captions.
