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A Latin philological miscellany printed in Rome in 1594 by Bonfadini, by the scholar Giuseppe Castiglione, with no clear audience beyond scholars. Its pictures are woodcut decorative initials, one large letter per picture, each framed in dense scrolling foliage, interlace and fleshy leaf ornament with hatched shading, a vocabulary a designer could borrow for display capitals, borders and monogram frames.
