La grande chyrurgie de maistre Guy de Chauliac,...traduite nouvellement en françois, & enrichie de plusieurs remarques,...par maistre Simon Mingelousaulx,...premiere edition
A 1672 French translation of Guy de Chauliac's medieval surgical treatise, rendered into French by Simon Mingelousaulx and printed at Bordeaux by Jacques Mongiron Millanges for a medical readership. Its pictures are a black ornamental decorated initial letter with dense leafy foliage and a plain justified French text block opening the Anatomy section, offering a designer a model for heavy woodcut-style drop caps and classic seventeenth-century book typography.
