Caii Plynii secundi naturalis historiae liber I
Pliny the Elder's Natural History, printed in Venice by Nicolas Jenson in the 1470s and edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi, a Latin scholarly text for humanist readers. The pictures are large decorated initial letters in red and blue with dense interlace, scrollwork and dotted filigree borders beside columns of black type, a model for historic ornamental capitals and page layout.
