Alberti Magni philosophie naturalis isagoge: sive introductiones: emendate nuper et impresse summa diligentia. In libros phisicorum, de celo et mundo, de generatione, metheororum, de anima Aristotelis ...
This is a 1514 Latin edition of Albertus Magnus's natural philosophy introductions, printed in Venice by the Singriener press for scholars and students of Aristotelian natural science; its pages from the library of C.G. Jung. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut and letterpress details: a decorated initial P with foliage, a heraldic cartouche flanked by griffins and putti, a column of printed Latin text arranged in branching brackets, and a later bookplate of a winged angel above a shield. A designer could draw on the mix of ornamental initials, strapwork and heraldic framing, and on the dense typographic texture of the text blocks.
