La chirurgie de Paulus Aegineta. Qui est le sixiesme livre de ses Oeuvres. Item ung Opuscule de Galien, des tumeurs contre nature. Plus ung Opuscule dudict Galien, de la maniere de curer par abstraction de sang. Le tout traduict de Latin en Françoys par Maistre Pierre Tolet Medecin de l’Hospital de Lyon,
A 1540 French translation of Paulus Aegineta's surgical treatise, printed in Lyon by E. Dolet and rendered from Latin by the hospital physician Pierre Tolet for a medical readership. Its pages show Renaissance printing with large decorative historiated initials, ornamented capitals framed in foliate scrollwork, and dense black-letter type with italic and small capitals, useful to a designer seeking early French typographic ornament.




