Brief traité de la pharmacie pronvinciale et familiere : suivant laquelle la Medecine peut estre faicte des remedes qui se treuvent en chasque province, sans qu’on soit contraint les aller mandier ailleurs. Dressé et faict vulgaire par M. Antoine Constantin, D. en Medecine à Aix en Provence
A 1597 French pharmacy manual by Antoine Constantin, a Doctor of Medicine at Aix-en-Provence, printed in Lyon by Thibaud Ancelin for general readers who wanted remedies from their own province. The pictures are small printed woodcut ornaments: a decorative initial with birds and foliage, and a historiated initial showing a creature in a square frame, alongside two blotchy, worn circular stamps that are likely scan artifacts rather than book art. A designer could draw on the interlaced foliage, bird motifs and compact framed capitals of sixteenth-century French typography.
