Expositio super quarta fen primi Canonis Avicennae
A medieval commentary on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine by Ugo Benzi (1376-1439), with a later edition by Jacques Desparts, printed in Pavia or Padua for medical readers and scholars. The picture shows a dense printed page of Latin text in two columns with small blue and red penned initials marking the divisions of the commentary. A designer might take from it the rhythm of crowded justified type, the rubricated capitals, and the plain manuscript-like texture of early printed scholarship.
