Vida del sieruo de Dios v.p. fray Gonzalo Diaz de Amarante, padre de los pobres, de nacion portuques, y de profession religioso del real, y militar orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced ... y hijo del conuento grande de Lima ... : Sacada de dos informaciones, que en su causa se hizieron en el Perù por los ordinarios de Lima ...
A 1678 Spanish devotional biography printed in Madrid by Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, written by Felipe Colombo about the Mercedarian friar Gonzalo Díaz de Amarante, who worked among the poor in Lima. The single picture is a small woodcut ornament, not a narrative scene: an oval medallion with a stylised flower or rose-like motif framed by sprigs of leaves, set beside the opening words of the text. A designer might take from it the compact, cut-line vocabulary of early modern Spanish printer's ornaments for bordered initials and tailpieces.
