Osseruazioni de astrologia et altre appartenenze, circa della medicina, & mutazione de tempi
A 1567 Italian astrology and medicine treatise by Battista De Ruberti, printed in Florence by the heirs of Lorenzo Torrentino and Carlo Pettinari. Its four pictures are woodcut decorative strapwork headpieces built from symmetrical acanthus scrolls, leaves and curling tendrils, printed as ornamental bands above the text. A designer could take their mirrored scrollwork and tapering leaf forms as a model for borders, dividers and classical ornament.
