[Articella]

Venezia : Hermann Liechtenstein · 5 pictures

The Articella is a medical compendium of classical and medieval texts printed in Venice by Hermann Liechtenstein around 1500, a collection of works by various authors for physicians and students. Its pages are dense black-letter columns broken by hand-coloured decorated initials in red, blue and green, with some marginalia in brown ink. A designer could take from them the interplay of ornamental capitals with dense text blocks and the limited red and blue-green palette of early printed books.

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