Regimen sanitatis
Regimen sanitatis is a 1506 Latin medical treatise on health and diet, printed in Paris by Jehan Petit and attributed to Magninus Mediolanensis, written for physicians and scholars of the Middle Ages. Its pages are dense black-letter text blocks opening with large historiated initials, some containing figures and foliate ornament, set in tight justified columns with marginal rubrics. A designer might take the strong contrast of heavy blackletter type against ornate woodcut initials as a model for dramatic display lettering and decorative drop caps.
