De morbis & affectis mulierum
A 1619 Latin medical treatise on women's diseases, written by Jean de Varanda with commentary by Petrus Mylaeus and Petrus de Vege, printed at Lyon by Bartholomaei Vincontij for physicians and students. The pictures are four decorative woodcut initial letters (I, E, M, P) in a sixteenth-to-seventeenth-century style, with dense scrollwork, foliage and a grotesque figure, offering designers ready models for ornamental drop caps and historical letterforms.
