Galeni Pergameni summi semper viri quique primus artem medicinae universam ... Opera omnia, ad fidem complurium & perquam vetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atque restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint / vol. 4
A 1538 Basel edition of Galen's collected medical works, volume four, printed by Cratander and held by a Paris university health library, set in dense Greek and Latin type. The picture is a woodcut historiated initial, a large letter framed by foliage with a standing figure in a rectangular panel, and it shows how early printers combined ornate capitals with text blocks for a designer studying decorative page structure.
