Expositio medica casus de aegritudine animi ...
A Latin medical treatise on the circulation of blood and disorders of the mind, written by Ernest Joseph Albeckh and printed at Tübingen in 1688 by Martin Rommeis. The two pictures are letterpress printer's ornaments: a large decorated initial N with foliate scrollwork beside a block of Latin text, and a bearded mask set within a scrolled cartouche. A designer could draw on the dense interlace of the historiated capital and the symmetrical grotesque mask for period-style borders, monograms and title-page devices.
