Mater amoris et doloris : quam Christus in cruce moriens omnibus ac singulis suis fidelibus in matrem legavit, ecce mater tua : nunc explicata per sacra emblemata, figuras scripturae quàm plurimas, conceptus varios praedicabiles, SS. patrum sententias, raras historias, & pios ad Jesum patientem, ac sanctissimam matrem ejus compatientem affectus : opus omnibus Jesum & Mariam amantibus, praedicantibus, aut meditantibus perutile, com triplici indice considerationum, rerum memorabilium, & concionatorio, formandis per annum concionibus opportuno
A Latin devotional emblem book on the Virgin Mary by Antonius Ginther, printed at Augsburg in 1726 by Georg Schlüter and Martin Happach for preachers and readers building sermons and meditations on the Passion. The scanned pages yield heavy black woodcut initials in which letters are built from symmetrical scrolling foliage, some ringed by dotted circular frames with corner leaf sprigs, useful as drop caps, monogram armatures, or sources of small repeating scroll ornament.
