Index Dioscoridis. En, candide lector, Historiales Dioscoridis campi, exegemataque simplicium, atque eorundem collationes cum his quae in officinis habentur... Joanne Roderico Castelli albi Lusitano auctore
A 1536 Latin commentary on the herbal of Dioscorides, printed at Antwerp by Amatus Lusitanus for scholars and physicians, with its text set in dense columns of black type. The four pictures are full-width pages of close-set Latin, showing only capital letters and running text with no plant images, so a designer might take the rhythm of dense justified columns and the decorated initial letters.
