Liber totius medicine necessaria co[n]tinens
A Latin medical treatise printed at Lyon in 1523, the Liber totius medicine by the Arab physician Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi, edited by Michael de Capella for a learned readership of physicians and scholars. The single picture is a decorated historiated initial with a small scene of figures at the start of the text, set in dense black-letter type with a densely ruled page. A designer might take the ornamental capital and tight justified columns of text as a model for period-style typography and framed initials.
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