Des aller fürtrefflichsten, höchsten vnnd adelichsten Gschöpffs aller Creaturen von Got dem Herren, Schöpffer aller Ding auff Erden, erschaffen : das ist, des Menschen (oder dein selbst) warhafftige Beschreibung, oder, Anatomi seines wunderbarlichen Vrsprungs ...
A 1541 German anatomy book by physician Walther Hermann Ryff, printed in Strasbourg by Balthasar Beck, describing the human body for a general German-reading audience. Its pictures are woodcut figures of a flayed man seated on an ornate chair with organs and vessels labelled by letters and numbers, set in plain printed pages with Gothic headings. A designer could take the stark diagrammatic linework, the labelled-figure layout, and the chair-and-pedestal framing as models for technical illustration.
