Commentarii de sanitate tuenda in primum librum de Re medica Aurel. Cornelii Celsi
A Latin medical commentary on Celsus, written by Joost van Lom and printed in Louvain in 1558 for physicians and students of practical medicine. The first picture is a decorative title page with a central oval vignette of a rider or figure in a landscape, framed by ornate strapwork, cherubs and scrolls, a sober model for cartouche and frame design. The second is a close crop of italic black-letter text with a large initial P and tight, even line spacing, showing how a dense early typeface sets a strong typographic texture.
