L'Eschole de Salerne en vers burlesques
L'Eschole de Salerne en vers burlesques is a 1650 French burlesque verse rendering of the medieval Salernitan health poem, published in Paris by Jean Henault and written by Louis Martin. Its pictures are small black-and-white letterpress decorations: a historiated initial showing figures beside a cross-shaped frame, a cherub-flanked coat of arms with fruit swags, and a plain title page in heavy capitals. A designer could take from them the compact logic of early modern book ornament, where a single woodcut initial, a central crest, and bold display type organize a whole page.
