Arbor scientiae, venerabilis et caelitvs, illuminati patris Raymvndi Lvllii Maioricensis
This 1515 Lyon edition of Ramon Llull's Arbor scientiae, printed by Gilbert de Villiers for the booksellers Guillaume Huyon and Constantin Fradin, is a Latin treatise on knowledge organised as a diagram. Its woodcut tree diagrams place branching roots, trunks, and fruit-like labelled roundels along a central trunk, with small figures at the base and text panels around the edges. A designer could draw on their dense hierarchical layout, with ordered tiers of circles, radiating branches, and framing text blocks, as a model for infographic structure.
