Amati Lusitani Medici ac philosophi celeberrimi In Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia libros quique enarrationes eruditissimae, quibus etiam tum simplicium medicamentorum nomenclaturae graecae, latinae, italicae, germanicae, et gallicae proponuntur (...)
A 1557 Venetian printed commentary by the Portuguese physician Amatus Lusitanus on Dioscorides' materia medica, written for physicians and scholars and set in dense roman type with Greek, Latin and vernacular plant names. The pictures are small woodcut historiated and decorative initials, one showing a figure and a shield-like ornament, and one an ornate capital with a figure amid foliage, offering designers examples of Renaissance letterform decoration.
