Tertullien
A 1550 religious text by Tertullian, printed in Basel by Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius for a scholarly readership. The pictures are woodcut printer's devices and diagrams: a caduceus-like staff with two serpents, a dove and clasped hands repeated in two versions, and a circular scheme of text and symbols on a printed page. A designer might take the interlocking serpent knotwork and the Froben printer's mark as models for emblem-style logos or heraldic borders.
