Ars transmutationis metallicae cum Leonis X. pontificis maximi ... decemvirorum Venetorum edicto
This 1519 Latin treatise on alchemy by Giovanni Agostino Panteo, printed by Tacuino, is a scholarly text on metal transmutation written for learned readers. Its pictures are historiated and decorated initials framed in plain rectangular boxes beside the dense columns of black-letter type, with ruled borders and ornamental capitals a designer could adapt for display lettering and page framing.
