Schola salernitana de valetudine tuenda
A Latin medical treatise, the Schola salernitana on preserving health, printed in Paris in 1672 by Louis Billaine for a learned readership of physicians and students. The picture is a printer's ornamental device, a scrolled cartouche enclosing a stylised letter B, beside an oval library stamp reading Ecole de Sante de Paris with a profile bust labelled Hippocrates; a designer might take the strapwork frame and the classical profile medallion as period ornament.
