Nicolai Leoniceni uiri doctissimi De Plinii et aliorum medicorum erroribus liber : cui addita sunt quaedam eiusdem autoris De herbis & fruticibus. Animalibus. Metallis. Serpentibus. Tiro seu uipera. Nicoleos uere dictus, Victoria nomen praebet, Aristotelem uincit & Hippocratem
A 1529 Latin medical treatise by the physician Niccolò Leoniceno, printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri for scholars and physicians, correcting errors in Pliny and other medical writers. Its pictures are four woodcut historiated initials, each a letter set in a dense black field of foliage, scrollwork and grotesque figures, offering designers ready models for decorative capitals and ornamental letterforms.
