Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continetur, a Phoenice illo astronomorum Tychone ..
Tabulae Rudolphinae is a 1627 astronomical table book by Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, printed at Ulm for scholars of the heavens. Its pictures are black-and-white woodcut and engraved ornaments: a corbel-like panel with scrolls and a grotesque mask, a triangular grotesque with a face beneath a headdress, a repeating rectangular strapwork band, and a decorated initial D. A designer could take from them the vocabulary of Renaissance strapwork, mask ornament, and framed initials for historical display type and borders.
