Georgii Agricolae Libri Qvinqve De mensuris & ponderibus: In quibus pleraq[ue] a Bvdaeo & Portio parum animaduersa diligenter excutiuntur

Agricola, Georg · 1533 · 4 pictures

Georgius Agricola's Latin treatise on weights and measures, printed in 1533, a scholarly work of antiquarian metrology aimed at humanist readers and scholars. Its pictures are historiated and decorated initial letters, a large R and M with figures, foliage and grotesque scrolls set beside dense black-letter text, and a foliate C enclosing a reclining figure and a child; a designer might borrow the framed-initial layout and woodcut ornament as a model for display lettering.

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