De rebus Turcaru[m] ad Franciscum Gallorum Regem Christianiss. libri quinque
A Latin history of the Turks in five books by Christophe Richer, printed in Paris in 1540 by Robert Estienne, royal printer of Hebrew and Latin letters, and addressed to King Francis of France. The pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each a large letter set in dense dotted ground filled with scrolling foliage, flowers and small creatures, cut as white-on-black ornament typical of Parisian Renaissance printing. A designer could draw on their dotted textures, interlaced vine scrolls and framed capital letters for display lettering and borders.
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