Macrobii Ambrosii Avrelii Theodosii, viri consvlaris & illustris, In Somnium Scipionis lib. II ; Saturnaliorum lib. VII : ex uarijs ac uetustissimis codicibus recogniti & aucti
A 1542 Lyon edition printed by Sebastian Gryphius of Macrobius's commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio and his Saturnalia, edited by Arnoldus Vesaliensis from early manuscripts, aimed at scholars and students of classical Latin. The pictures are small woodcut historiated initials and tabular diagrams of Roman numeral branching trees and stepped figures, sparse and schematic, showing how a designer might build a clean diagrammatic device or a decorative capital letter from simple line work.
