Galenoi peri muôn kinèseôs biblia duo
A 1544 Greek-language medical treatise by Galen, printed at Basel by the Froben press and held by a Paris university health-sciences library. The pictures are printer's devices and a decorated initial: a caduceus-like staff of two entwined serpents with a bird perched between their heads, flanked by two clasping hands, and a historiated capital T filled with foliage and small figures beside dense Greek type. A designer might take from them the compact, symmetrical logic of a printer's mark and the contrast between ornate woodcut initials and plain text setting.
