Idea medicinae philosophicae, fundamenta continens totius doctrinae Paracelsicae, Hippocraticae et Galenicae....
Idea medicinae philosophicae is a 1571 medical treatise by Petrus Severinus, printed in Basel by the Sixtus Henricpetri press for physicians and students of Paracelsian, Hippocratic and Galenic medicine. Its pictures are mostly printer's and owner's marks: a densely set black-letter opening with a decorated initial Q, an oval bookplate portrait of a bearded man in profile, a worn circular library stamp, and a woodcut device with a flaming altar-like scene inside a strapwork frame. A designer could draw on the compact strapwork cartouches and bold initial letterforms.
