Petri Paaw Amsteldamensis, in Academia Lugduno-Batava anatomici & botanici professoris Primitiae anatomicae : de humani corporis ossibus
A 1615 Latin anatomy treatise on the human skeleton by Pieter Paaw, a Leiden professor of anatomy and botany, printed at Leiden by Justus à Colster for medical students and scholars. Its pictures here are decorative woodcut initial letters O, P, I and V, with interlaced scrollwork, leafy tendrils and hatched shading that a designer could borrow for historical letterforms and ornamental capitals.
