Francisci Marii Grapaldi poetae laureati De partibus aedium : addita modo verborum explicatione, quae in eodem libro continentur : opus sane elegans & eruditum : tum propter multiugam variarum rerum lectionem cu propter M. Vitruuii & Cornelii Celsi emaculatas dictiones : quae apud ipsos vel Medosae vel obscurae videbatur
A Latin treatise on the parts of the house and its vocabulary by the Parmese humanist Francesco Mario Grapaldi, printed at Parma in 1516 by Ottaviano Salado and Francesco Ugoleto for scholars of architecture and classical Latin. The plates are woodcut initial letters cut in white line against dense black or stippled grounds, some framed in square borders, with vine scrolls, rosettes and blackletter forms filling the block initials ready for use as drop caps, monograms or small stamp-like ornaments.
