Disquisitio physiologica de pilis
A 1619 Latin medical treatise on hair, printed at Tournon by C. Michel and written by Jean Tardy, a physician active in 1609, with a large decorative initial S set in a square woodcut frame. The initial is a dense, ornamental letter with interlaced foliage and a pale, looping S against dark ground, a useful model for historic initials, blackletter-era ornament and print-block framing.
