Disputatio inauguralis medica, de catarrho suffocativo ...
A Latin medical dissertation on suffocative catarrh, written by Georg Friedrich Aeplinius and printed at Jena in 1681 by the widow of Samuel Krebs, for academic readers of university medicine. Its pictures are printed typographic ornaments: a symmetrical woodcut cartouche with scrolls and a central mask, a dense black-line arabesque panel, a repeating foliate border strip, and a large display-type heading. A designer might take from them the scroll-and-mask vocabulary of early modern printers' ornament and the strong contrast of black-on-cream type.
