Bvlle de N.S. Pere le Pape, Clement VIII. contenant les facultez donnees à Monseigneur l'illustrissime & reuerendissime Cardinal de Plaisance, legat apostolique au royaume de France.
A 1592 papal bull of Clement VIII printed in Paris by Robert Nivelle and Rolin Thierry, granting powers to the Cardinal of Piacenza as apostolic legate to the French kingdom, so it is an ecclesiastical legal document for French clergy and officials. The picture is a small decorative historiated initial letter C in a woodcut frame, with a robed standing woman holding leafy stems, flanked by foliage and grotesque animal heads, showing how a designer could draw on early modern printed ornament and capital letters.
