Phytobasanos, sive plantarvm aliqvot historia : in qva describvntvr diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ
Phytobasanos is a 1592 botanical treatise by Fabio Colonna, printed in Naples by Giacomo Carlino and Antonio Pace, describing plants and fishes for naturalists and scholars of ancient botany. Its pages show plants drawn in woodcut-style line within decorative ornamental borders, each labelled with Latin names at the top corners. A designer could take from them the clean, botanical line work of stems, leaves and roots and the dense, repeating frame ornament that organizes each page.
