Parva naturalia Augustini Niphi medices philosophi Suessani, videlicet Physiognomicorum libri tres, De animalium motu lib. unus, De longitudine & brevitate vitae lib. unus, De juventute & senectute lib. unus, De respiratione lib. unus, De morte & vita lib. unus, De memoria & reminiscentia lib. unus, De somno & vigilia lib. unus, De insomniis lib. unus, De divinatione naturali, artificiosa, et de prophetia lib. unus. Omnia post primas editiones nunc primum emendatiora in lucem prodeunt
This 1550 Venetian edition, printed by Hieronymus Scotus, collects Agostino Nifo's commentaries on Aristotle's Parva naturalia, a scholarly treatise on physiology, memory, sleep and divination written for university students and philosophers. The pages are dense black-letter text in two columns with large decorated initials and running headers, offering a designer strong examples of early printed page layout, typographic texture and historical ornament.
