Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
A 1694 scientific journal issued in Vratislavia (Breslau) by the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Natural Scientists, for physicians and natural philosophers. Its pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a cartouche with an open book and entwined serpents, a dense foliate headpiece, a historiated initial L with a figure, and a bordered tailpiece with seated figures and a central medallion. A designer could draw on their scrolling acanthus leaves, strapwork and framed emblematic medallions for period-style borders and cartouches.
