Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
A 1695 Latin scientific journal issued at Vratislaviae by the Leopoldino-Carolina German Academy of Natural Scientists, a learned society of physicians and naturalists, and collected here from the Natural History Museum Library in London. Its single picture is an ornate engraved title page, where a symmetrical oval cartouche of foliage, scrolls and banners frames the journal's Latin title and a coat of arms beneath a winged crest. A designer might take from it the dense, symmetrical baroque ornament that organises text inside a framed oval, a model for dignified academic frontispieces.
