Andreae Thurini Pisciensis, medici apostolici, ad Matth[ae]um Curtiu[m] Ticinen[sem]. De vena in curatione pleuritidos incidenda ... epistola eruditissima
A 1528 Latin medical letter by Andrea Turini of Pisa, physician to the Pope, addressed to Matthaeus Curtius of Ticino and printed in Paris by Jodocus Badius Ascensius on the case for opening a vein in treating pleurisy. The picture is a page of dense black-letter text beside a large decorated initial, with its ornate interlace filling the left side, and the setting is a Renaissance printing house. A designer could draw on the contrast between the carved, knotted initial and the tightly justified roman type, a model of early printed page architecture.
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