De coloribus libellus, à Simone Portio Neopolitano latinitate donatus & commentarijs illustratus: vnà cum eiusdem praefatione, que coloris naturam declarat
A 1548 Latin edition of Aristotle's treatise on colour, printed in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino and translated and annotated by Simone Porzio for scholars and students. The pictures are woodcut initials and a bookplate: one historiated letter A shows mounted riders in a landscape, a Stanley Austin ex libris with a foliage border, and an atlas figure kneeling under an armillary sphere on a yellow ground. A designer could draw on the mounted figures inside the letter, the dense leafy frame, and the strong black-and-white contrast of the old woodcut line work.
