Traitte de la theriaque par Jacques Fontaine docteur medecin en Avignon
A French medical treatise on theriac, a complex compounded remedy, written by Jacques Fontaine, a doctor of medicine in Avignon, and printed there by Jacques Bramereau in 1601 for physicians and apothecaries. Its pictures are a dedicatory title page with an armorial shield and flanking figures, a decorated initial and a small ornamental cartouche, offering a designer examples of early seventeenth-century French heraldic and typographic ornament.


