Hippocratis,... de Natura humana libellus... una cum Claudii Galeni commentario, Hermanno Cruserio,... interprete
A 1531 Paris edition of Hippocrates' treatise On the Nature of Man, with Galen's commentary, printed by G. Morrhius's workshop for medical students and scholars. The single picture is a woodcut printer's ornament showing a mermaid-like figure with a fish tail, holding a skull-topped staff and a scroll, set on a small plinth. A designer could take from it the dense, hatched black-and-white line work of Renaissance woodcut, with its scale-patterned tail and curling flourishes, as a model for decorative vignettes.
