Dissertatio inauguralis medica de palpitatione cordis
A Latin medical dissertation by Johann Ulrich Fels, printed in Basle in 1694 by J.R. Genath, presented as an inaugural doctoral thesis for the medical faculty. The single picture is a large woodcut initial V, with figures in period dress and a town scene with buildings and a tower set inside the letterform, beside dense black-letter Latin text. A designer could take from it the way a figurative woodcut can be built into a decorative capital letter that holds its own beside text.
