Arbolayre contenant la qualitey et virtus, proprietey des herbes, arbres, gommes et semences…
An incunable herbal printed in Besançon by Petrus Metlinger, a Latin-to-French medicinal plant compendium for physicians and apothecaries of the late fifteenth century. The pictures are small black-line woodcut plant studies beside columns of gothic black-letter text, with decorated historiated initials opening each entry, offering a designer models for botanical line drawing, ornamental capitals and dense early type color.
