L’estat des vertus desquelles doit estre ornée l’âme chrestienne pour vivre eternellement bienheureuse avec l’estat des parties du corps, ...
A 1619 French devotional and medical treatise printed in Paris by D. Langlois, written by Nicolas Abraham de La Framboisière for a Christian readership on virtues and the parts of the body. The two pictures are decorative historiated initials set into the text: a large letter M framed by dense scrolling foliage with a figure inside, and a smaller letter C surrounded by leafy ornament, both showing how a letter can be built from interlaced vegetal and figural forms for a designer's borders and capitals.
