Sermon
A 1689 Spanish-language sermon printed in Mexico City by Doña María de Benavides, widow of Juan de Ribera, at the Empedradillo shop, held by the John Carter Brown Library. The pictures are typographic ornaments: a large letter Q framed in foliate scrollwork, a row of stylised hanging bell-and-tassel motifs, and a printed line of censorship licence text under a decorative rule. A designer could draw on the carved, rhythmic borders and the dense ornamental capital for historic type and pattern work.
