Q. Sereni Samonici de Medicina praecepta saluberrima, per D. Caesarium ab omnibus quibus scatebant mendis probe ac diligenter emaculata. Item Q. Rhemnii Fannii Palaemonis de Ponderibus et mensuris liber utilissimus...
A 1533 Latin medical verse treatise by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, printed in Paris by Simon de Colines for scholars and physicians, bound with a Palaemon treatise on weights and measures. The two pictures are plain letterpress pages: a large ornamental title line in roman and italic capitals, and a historiated initial P beside a dense column of Latin verse. A designer might take the contrast between the decorated woodcut initial and the tight, unillustrated text block as a model for classic book typography.
