Scrutinium pestis, quod ... disputatione inaugurali ... subjiciet
A 1683 Latin medical dissertation on plague, printed at Marburg by J.J. Kürsner and held by the Wellcome Library, written by Johannes Rodolphus Neuhusius for an academic audience of physicians and students. Its one picture is a large decorative initial letter, a Q enclosed in a ring of interlaced scrolls, leaves and hatched shading, cut as a woodblock and set into the printed text line above a fragment of Latin. A designer could take from it a model for a historical capital letter, with its dense, symmetrical scrollwork and cross-hatched shading.
