Double d'une lettre missive, envoyée par le seigneur Nicolas Nicolai, geographe du Roy à Monseigneur du Buys, vicebaillif de Vienne, contenant le discours de la guerre faicte par le Roy nostre Sire, Henry deuxième de ce nom, pour le recouvrement du pays de Boulongnoys, en l'an mil cinq cens quarante neuf.
A 1550 French printed letter by Nicolas Nicolay, royal geographer, addressed to Monseigneur du Buys of Vienne, published in Lyon by Guillaume Roville and describing Henry II's 1549 campaign to recover the Boulonnais. The sole picture is a large decorative initial M, set in dense stippled ground with white scrolling foliage and interlace, which a designer could take as a model for dotted-texture display letters and historiated capitals.
