Arrest notable de la Cour de Parlement : Donné en matière d'injures atroces & scandaleuses, pour la réparation d'icelles
A 1631 legal decree of the Parlement of Paris, printed in Paris by Jean de Bordeaux for the French court and its readers, concerning punishment for atrocious and scandalous insults. The pictures are a modern library bookplate with a laurel-wreathed seal and a small woodcut armorial device from the early printed book, showing fleur-de-lis and a cross-patterned shield; a designer might take from them the restrained symmetry of seal borders and the crisp black woodcut ornament of early modern heraldry.
