Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1690 volume of medical and natural philosophy papers issued at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina academy of natural science, written for physicians and naturalists of the German-speaking world. Its pictures are symmetrical woodcut floral ornaments, a heart-shaped spray of roses and leaves around a central pine-cone-like motif, which a designer could reuse as a decorative border, tailpiece, or repeat pattern.
