Guidi Antonii Albanesii Aphorismorum Hippocratis expositio peripatetica
A 1649 Latin medical commentary on Hippocrates' aphorisms by Guido Antonio Albanese, printed in Padua by Paolo Frambotti and held by the Wellcome Library; its pictures are printer's woodcut decorative initials for scholars and typographers. The decorative letters range from a tall ornate capital with interlaced vine scrollwork to a bold capital P and A framed in leafy foliage, offering designers period models for historical initial letters and botanical border ornament.
