Canticum principis Avicenne de medicina, seu Breve perspicuum, & concinne digestum institutionum medicarum compendium. Cui adjecti aphorismi medici Johannis Mesuaei
A 1649 Latin medical compendium by the physician Avicenna (980-1037), printed at Groningen by the Joannis Nicolai press for students and practitioners of medicine. The picture is a decorative woodcut initial capital A set in a flourishing scrolled border, beside a column of dense black-letter-style Latin type, showing how a printed page can frame a single letter with ornament.
