Medizinische Rezeptsammlungen
A 1590 German collection of medical prescriptions, the Medizinische Rezeptsammlungen, whose surviving copy carries an engraved title page for a Bavarian prince-elector. The single picture is a heraldic plate: two winged putti hold a crown above a shield of blue-and-white lozenges flanked by rampant lions, inside a wreath-framed oval with a Latin inscription. A designer could take its symmetrical heraldic layout, cherub figures and ribbon-and-wreath border as models for formal emblems or armorial frames.
