Sermam
A sermon volume by the Jesuit preacher António Vieira, printed in Lisbon in 1642 at the Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa, held by the John Carter Brown Library and likely addressed to a Portuguese clerical or lay readership. The single picture is a heraldic coat of arms with a bird crest, a chevron and three small figures, framed by scrolling acanthus-like mantling and a 'GAUDEO' ribbon below. A designer might take from it the symmetrical crest-and-shield layout, the scroll mantling and the banner-and-shield motif for emblem or seal work.
