Opobalsami veteribus cogniti vindiciae
Opobalsami veteribus cogniti vindiciae is a 1644 Latin medical and botanical treatise by Johann Vesling, printed in Padua by Paolo Frambotti for physicians and students of materia medica. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, an O, L, A and S, with interlaced vine scrolls, foliage and hatched ornament that a designer could borrow for monograms, drop caps or heritage borders.
