Hippocrate dépaïsé: ou la version paraphrasee de ses aphorismes
A 1654 Paris printed verse paraphrase of Hippocrates' aphorisms, published by Edme Pepingué and held by the Wellcome Library. The picture is a single page of French verse set in roman type, opening with a large decorative initial L and a line-by-line rhyming text on medical moderation. A designer might take the ornamental drop capital and the tidy, justified lines of 17th-century typography as a model for classical text layout.
