Tractatus de gabellis. Solenis et bodierne practice q; comodissimus tractatus vectigalium gabellaruve casus etiam quotidianos decidens, per egregium juris vtriusq;
A 1533 Latin legal treatise on taxes and customs duties by Giovanni Bertachini, printed in Lyon for lawyers and officials, with its opening pages decorated by historiated woodcut initials. The pictures are small black-and-white woodcut letters, each set in a square frame with dense foliage, flowers and scrollwork filling the letter's body, which a designer could adapt for decorative capitals, borders or vintage letterforms.
