Claudij Galeni Pergameni De temperamentis libri III : de inaequali intemperie liber I
A Latin medical treatise by Galen on bodily temperament, edited with translation work by Jacques Dubois and Thomas Linacre, printed in Paris in 1545 by the Wechel press for a scholarly readership of physicians and students. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials: putti and figures climbing, perching and gesturing within the letter A and a framed I, with foliage and cartouche ornament, a model for compact decorative letters.




