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Le livre des presaiges dv divin Hyppocrates, diuisé en troys parties. Item: La protestation, que le dict Hyppocrates faisoit faire à ses disciples

Hippocrates, Verney, Pierre, 16th century · 1542 · Lyon, E. Dolet · 6 pictures

A 1542 prognostic medical treatise attributed to Hippocrates, printed in Lyon by E. Dolet and rendered in French for a learned readership of physicians and students. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials, letters L, V, M and T set in dense black grounds with white-line foliage, scrolls and fantastic birds, offering a designer models for ornamental letterforms and framed capitals.

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