Guaiacum. L’experience et approbation Ulrich de Huten notable chevalier. Touchant la medecine du boys dict Guaiacum. Pour circonvenir et dechasser la maladie indeuement appelle francoyse Aincois par gens de meilleur jugement est dicte et appelle la maladie de Neaples, traduicte et interpretee par maistre Jehan Cheradame, Hypocrates estudiant en la faculte et art de medecine,
A 1520 French medical treatise printed in Lyon by Claude Nourry, translated by Jehan Cheradame from Ulrich von Hutten's account of guaiacum wood as a cure for syphilis, aimed at physicians and students of medicine. Its pages are dense black-letter text set in justified columns, each opening with a woodcut historiated initial showing a seated figure, often a scholar at a desk or a bearded man in a robe, which a designer could use as a model for decorative capitals and early printed page layout.
