Disputatio inauguralis medico chirurgica de ydrosarkokele ...
A 1689 Latin medical dissertation printed at Basel by Jacobi Bertschii, written by Alexander Pfister for academic examination in medicine and surgery. Its single picture is a woodcut historiated initial H, a large decorative letter with a small scene of figures set inside its crossbar and stem, framed by scrolling foliage and a winged creature at the top. A designer could take from it the dense, ornamental capital letter tradition, where a figure scene is nested inside a letterform.
