Declaration dv Roy, povr les immunitez, franchises 7 exemptions des Ecclesiastiques : verifiée en la Cour des Aydes, le dix-neufuime Iuin,1630
A royal declaration issued by Louis XIII of France in 1630, printed in Paris by Antoine Estienne, Pierre Mettayer and Claude Prevost for the Ecclesiastics, setting out their immunities and exemptions as verified by the Cour des Aydes. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a fleur-de-lis shield, a crowned royal coat of arms with a wreath, a large decorated initial V and an initial L with foliate scrollwork. A designer might take from them the dense, hand-cut vegetal borders and heraldic motifs of seventeenth-century French typography.
