Joan. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus, in Colloquia redditus: Das ist: Des Comens Sichtbare Welt
Orbis sensualium pictus is a 1770 German-Latin schoolbook by Johann Amos Comenius, edited by Johann Georg Joseph Lischke and held by Heidelberg University Library, meant to teach children vocabulary through pictures. The single plate is a dense ornamental woodcut headpiece of scrolling foliage, a central urn or vase, and a seated figure framed by acanthus leaves, a pattern a designer might borrow for symmetrical decorative borders.
