Le livre des presaiges dv divin Hyppocrates, diuisé en troys parties. Item: La protestation, que le dict Hyppocrates faisoit faire à ses disciples
A 1542 prognostic medical treatise attributed to Hippocrates, printed in Lyon by E. Dolet and rendered in French for a learned readership of physicians and students. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials, letters L, V, M and T set in dense black grounds with white-line foliage, scrolls and fantastic birds, offering a designer models for ornamental letterforms and framed capitals.
