Barptolomaei Coclitis bononiensis, naturalis philosophiae ac medicinae doctoris, Physiognomiae & chiromantiae compendium
Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's 1533 Strasbourg compendium of physiognomy and palmistry, edited by André Corve, was a scholarly medical handbook for learned readers interested in reading character and fortune from the body. Its woodcuts show left palms, each printed in a rectangular frame with leafy patterned borders and labeled with Latin captions; a designer might borrow the framed hand diagrams and their botanical border motifs as a clean, systematic illustration style.
