Decreto & authoritate illustris & gratiosissimae Facultatis Medicae in Athenaeo Salano florentissimo, Moderante ... Dn. Johanne Theodoro Schenckio, ... Hanc dissertationem inauguralem de arthritide, pro supremis in arte médicâ honoribus, privilegiisque Doctoralibus ... consequendis, ad diem Novembris, M. DC. LXXI ...
A 1671 Latin medical dissertation on arthritis, printed in Jena by Litteris Nisianis under the authority of the Medical Faculty at Jena and presented by Johann Theodor Schenck for doctoral honours. The picture is a letterpress title page with a dense ornamental strapwork border, a large decorated initial A, and small-caps display lines in mixed roman and italic, offering a designer a model of early modern typographic hierarchy and decorative frame work.
