Abbrégé de la jurisprudence romaine : avec son rapport à ce qui est de notre usage
A 1653 Paris legal digest of Roman jurisprudence by Claude Colombet, published by G. Alliot and held by the University of Ottawa, written for lawyers and students comparing Roman law with French usage. The four pictures are printer's ornaments: a foliage and scroll strapwork band, a grotesque face between fruit swags, a leafy decorated initial C, and a cartouche of flowers and tassels with a manuscript signature beside it. A designer might take the scroll strapwork and fruit-garland borders as period-correct frames, and the decorated initial as a template for ornamental lettering.
