Petri Lotichii Secundi, Poetae clariss. et Medic. Profess. in Academia Heidelberg, Elegia an den hochgelehrten und vortrefflichen Joachimum Camerarium, Pabenbergensem, in werender Belägerung der Statt Magdenburg, Anno 1552 geschriben ...
A 1552 German-language elegy by the Heidelberg poet and physician Petrus Lotichius Secundus, addressed to the scholar Joachim Camerarius, printed by an unidentified publisher and held by the Zurich Central Library. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments, probably decorative headpieces or initials. The first is a symmetrical cartouche with scrolled frame, a bearded grotesque mask at its centre and a hanging tassel; the second is a dense arrangement of acanthus-like scrolls and volutes around a central fleur. Designers could take the mask cartouche for strapwork borders and the scroll ornament for tight symmetrical panel fills.
