Scribonii Largi de Compositionibus medicamentorum Liber unus, antehac nusquam excusus : Joanne Ruellio, doctore medico castigatore.
A 1528 Paris edition of Scribonius Largus's Latin pharmacological treatise on compound medicines, edited by the physician Joannes Ruellius and printed by Simon Silvius for medical readers. The pages are dense black-letter text set in columns, with large decorated initial letters opening each remedy, and one woodcut shows a stylised tree with scrolled banners and a small bird among foliage. A designer could take the historic-printing look of ornamental initials, tight justified columns and the simple botanical woodcut as a model for classical typographic framing.
