De febre purpura...
A 1578 medical treatise on purple fever printed in Paris by Martin and written by Jean Coytard de Thaire, held by a Paris university health sciences library. Its pictures are small woodcut-style pieces: a staff-and-serpent emblem of medicine with a bearded classical profile medallion inscribed with the Paris faculty's name, and a densely set black-letter text page with a decorated initial letter, useful to a designer looking for early printed ornament, emblem framing, and historic typographic texture.
