Marci Antonii Vlmi Patavini, Philosophi, & Medici Bonon. Physiologia Barbae Hvmanae: In Tres Sectiones diuisa ...
A 1603 Latin treatise by the Paduan philosopher and physician Marco Antonio Ulmo on the physiology of the human beard, printed for scholars and anatomists, now held by Heidelberg University Library. The pictures are small woodcut decorated initials, one with a hunting or woodland scene inside a letter B, a flaming urn in a scrolled cartouche, and a library ownership stamp; a designer might take the historical initial letters and cartouche ornament as models for period typography and frames.
