Declaration des cavses qvi ont mev Monseignevr le Cardinal de Bourbon & les pairs, princes, prelatz, seigneurs, villes & communautez de ce Royaume de France, de s'armer contre ceux qui veulent subuertir la religion & l'Estat.
A 1585 French pamphlet issued without a named printer, under the name of Cardinal Charles de Bourbon, declaring the reasons for the Catholic League's armed opposition to those seeking to subvert religion and the state. The single picture is a dense ornament of interlaced scrollwork, leaf forms and small square cartouches in a symmetrical cartouche-like shape, offering a designer a model for symmetrical filigree borders and decorative panels.
