Bouclier sacré de patience --
A French devotional book on patience, written by Jacques Corenus and printed in Lyon in 1631 by L. Muguet. The pictures are woodcut decorated initials, a large letter D and several tall I's, each framed by scrolling foliage, rosettes and small figures. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut ornament of early seventeenth-century printing, useful for drop caps, borders and historical display type.
