Nusq[uam] antea impressum Collectorium totius fere medicine Bertrucij Bononiensis : in quo infrascripta continentur. Primo de regimine sanitatis. Secundo de egritudinibus particularibus que sunt a capite usq[ue] ad pedes. Tertio de egritudinibus universalibus hoc est de febribus. Quarto de crisi et de diebus creticis. Quinto de venenis. Sexto de decoratione

Bertucci, Niccolò, d. 1347, Davost, Claude, printer, Trot, Barthélemy, fl. 1506-1535, publisher, Capella, Michael de · 1509 · Lugd[uni] : Impressum per Claudium Davost alias de Troys, impe[n]sis honesti viri Bartholomei Trote · 10 pictures

A Latin medical compendium printed at Lyon in 1509 by Claude Davost for the publisher Barthélemy Trot, collecting medieval medical treatises on regimen of health, diseases, fevers, crisis and poisons. The pictures are small black-and-white historiated initials, each a letter set in a cream field surrounded by dense black ground filled with white leafy scrollwork, some with pointed acanthus-like leaves and round berry-like dots. A designer could draw on these as compact, high-contrast letter ornaments for decorative capitals, frames or pattern tiles.

Medicine, Medieval

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