Galeni in Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentarii septem
A 1552 Latin medical commentary by Galen, edited by Gulielmus Plantius and printed in Lyon by Guillaume Rouille for scholars and physicians. The picture is a text page opening with a large decorated initial E, its interlaced foliate ornament set against a dense block of black-letter type with a few lines of printed Latin running beneath it. A designer might take the dense ornamental capital and the tightly set columns of text as a model for historical display lettering and decorative borders.
