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 · 32 pictures

A 1548 Venetian medical book by Galen, edited by Andrés de Laguna, printed by Hieronymus Scotus for physicians and students of Greek and Roman medicine. The four pictured initials are woodcut decorative capitals: a figure-entwined M, a leafy-scrolled D, an H with a plant and a crouching animal, and a bearded face within a Q, offering designers historic letter-based ornament with foliage, grotesques and framing.

Galen · Medicine, Greek and Roman

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