Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a journal of medical and natural philosophy issued in 1696 at Breslau (Vratislavia) by the Leopoldina, the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists, for physicians and naturalists. Its pictures are small printed woodcut ornaments: a foliate cartouche enclosing a book and serpent emblem, a pair of perched birds flanking a central motif, and a fruit and floral pendant, all in dense hatched line. A designer could take from them a model for compact period headpieces, tailpieces and emblematic borders.
