Amnestie : ou, De l'oubliance des maux faicts et receus pendant les troubles & à l'occasion d'iceux.
Amnestie is a French legal treatise on amnesty after the civil wars, written by the lawyer Antoine Loisel and printed in Paris in 1595 by Abel L'Angelier for readers in the legal and political world. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, one with an ornate framed letter, one with a winged figure between grotesque masks, one with a creature in foliage, and one with a figure in a scene, and a designer might take from them the dense knotted border ornament and the way figures sit inside letterforms.
