La Practique de Maistre Pierre Bocellin, chyrurgien et citoyen de la noble cité de Belleys en Savoye, sur la matière de la contagieuse et infective maladie de lèpre
A 1540 French medical treatise printed at Lyon by Macé Bonhomme, written by the Belleville surgeon Pierre Bocellin on leprosy for physicians and surgeons. Its pictures are historiated initials, woodcut letters with small figures inside: a seated physician, a surgeon at work, and a fanciful animal, all set in dense black-letter text that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals and framed drop-cap layouts.


