Caelii Apitii, summi adulatricis medicinae artificis, De re culinaria libri decem. B. Platinae Cremonensis De tuenda ualetudine, natura rerum, & popinae scientia libri X. Pauli Aeginetae De facultatibus alimentorum tractatus
A 1541 Latin compilation of ancient and Renaissance cookery and dietary texts attributed to Apicius, printed in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius for scholars and learned readers interested in food and health. Its two small woodcut illustrations show a griffin-like winged beast, one striding on a ground line with curling foliage and tufts of grass, the other perched atop a cube above a winged orb, both rendered in dense crosshatched lines that a designer could borrow for heraldic or emblematic motifs.
