Casper van Baarles Oratien en Blijde inkomst van Maria de Medicis : nieuwelijks met zijn gedichten verrijkt
A 1689 Dutch printed volume issued in Amsterdam by the bookseller Baltes Boekholt, collecting Caspar van Baerle's orations and poems on the festive entry of Marie de Médicis, Queen of France, into the city. The pictures are decorative woodcut elements: two large historiated initial letters, a C and a D, framed by acanthus scrolls and filled with leafy foliage, plus a small flower bouquet tailpiece with feathery wings. A designer could draw on the dense, rhythmic leaf-and-scroll ornament of these initials for borders, drop caps, or vintage headers.
