Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1685 periodical of medical and natural-philosophy observations issued at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina academy of natural scientists, aimed at physicians and naturalists in the German lands. Its pictures are crisp black-and-white copperplate and woodcut plates: an ornate allegorical title engraving with scrolling foliage and an oval cartouche, botanical sheets of leaves and fungi with numbered figures, and close studies of bark textures, which a designer could borrow for dense botanical framing, scrolled cartouche borders, or engraved tree-bark textures.
