Animadversiones in pharmacopoeiam Augustanam et annexam ejus mantissam, sive pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata, in qua vera et accuratissima methodo medicamentorum simplicium & compositorum praeparationes tam dextre traduntur, ac insuper antiquorum errores deteguntur, ut inde servatis & exaltatis simplicium medicaminum facultatibus, instrumenta multo aptiora medico evadant, quibus Cito, Tuto & Jucunde affectus humanum corpus infestantes propulsari queant. Nunc tertium revisa, plurimis locis adaucta, inque lucis edita, cum annexa appendice, Opera & studio Joannis Zwelferi Palatini M.D.
A 1667 Latin pharmacopoeia by physician Johann Zwelfer, printed in Nuremberg by the Endter firm for medical practitioners and apothecaries, revising the Augsburg pharmacopoeia. The pictures are repeated woodcut headpieces of strapwork, scrolls, and a central grotesque mask arranged in a symmetrical pendant shape at the top of pages, a dense ornamental form a designer could adapt for a symmetrical emblem or border.






























