Epitomes omnium Galeni Pergameni operum, vniuersam illius viri doctrinam, & methodu[m], quàm accuratissimè contine[n]tis, sectio prima-[quarta]

Galen, Laguna, Andrés de, 1499-1559 · 1548 · Venetiis : Apud Hieronymum Scotum · 45 pictures

A 1548 Venice medical treatise, an epitome of Galen's works compiled by Andrés de Laguna for physicians and students of medicine. Its pictures are small woodcut initials framed in dense hatched borders, with a figure set inside each letter, offering a designer ideas for decorative capitals and grotesque figure ornament from the Renaissance.

Galen · Medicine, Greek and Roman

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