Veterinariae medicinae libri II Johanne Ruellio suessionensi interprete.
Veterinariae medicinae libri II is a 1530 Latin veterinary medicine treatise by Jean Ruel, printed in Paris by Simon de Colines, translating the ancient writers Hippiatrica-style texts for horse doctors and scholars. Its pages are dense black-letter-style roman type set in justified columns, with large decorated initial letters opening each chapter, and the text blocks fill the page with little margin. A designer might take the ornamented capital letters and the tightly packed, even typographic texture as models for historical headers, drop caps, and text-heavy layouts.
