Placitum magni consilii pro gallicana Benedictorum congregatione, aduersus Maioris. Monasterij monachos
A 1606 legal pamphlet (factum) by Jean Darnal, published in Paris by R. Thierry, recording a great council ruling in a dispute between the Benedictine congregation of Gaul and the monks of a monastery, written for lawyers and jurists. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, the capitals V, S, P and E framed in dense foliage, scrolls and flowers, offering a designer a set of historic ornamental letterforms to adapt for display type or borders.
