Epitome des préceptes de medecine et chirurgie, avec amples des remedes propres aux maladies
A French medical and surgical handbook by Pierre Pigray, printed in Lyon by P. Rigaud in 1619 for practitioners seeking concise remedies. Its two pictures are small square printer's ornaments: a four-by-four grid of tiled scrolling foliate cartouches with spiral curls and leaf-like forms, one crisp and one set in a looser, faded impression. A designer could borrow the modular repeat, the tight scroll geometry and the way the blocks read as a tile pattern for historic borders or backgrounds.
