Libri septem
Libri septem is a medical treatise by Aretaeus of Cappadocia, printed in Venice by the Junta press in 1552 for physicians and students of medicine. Its two pictures are woodcut printer's devices framed in rectangles, each showing a central acanthus-leaf ornament with the letters L and A flanked by two satyr-like figures holding garlands. A designer could take from them the symmetrical balance of a framed Renaissance emblem and the interplay of foliage scroll and grotesque figure.
