Medici antiqui graeci Aretaeus, Palladius, Ruffus, Theophilus, physici & chirurgi, partim nunquam, partim anteà, sed nunc auctiores editi / omnes à Iunio Paulo Crasso ... Latio donati ; quibus accesserunt Stephanus Athen. & ipsius Crassi Quaestiones Medicae & Naturales.
A 1581 Basel collection of Greek medical writers, Aretaeus, Palladius, Rufus and Theophilus, edited by Giulio Paolo Crasso and printed by Petrus Perna for physicians and scholars. The picture is a large decorated initial A, its letter formed by a tall white-outlined stroke against hatched ground, with two small figures in profile, one playing a flute-like instrument, set in the open left and right corners. A designer might take from it the framing of a historiated letter, where figures are tucked beside a bold letterform to fill the space around it.
