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Discours de la maladie et mort de monseigneur l'Illustrissime Prince, Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon: Auec le rapport des Médecins & Chirurgiens.

Guynant, Antoine de. aut, Bourbon, Charles de, Cardinal, 1562?-1594 · 1594 · A Paris : Chez Rolin Thierry · 6 pictures

A 1594 Paris printed account by Antoine de Guynant of the illness and death of Cardinal Charles de Bourbon, published by Rolin Thierry for a French readership, with a report from his physicians and surgeons. Its pictures are small woodcut and typographic initials and ornaments, one with a figure of a saint, one with a hunter and dog, and one with a cherub among foliage and tassels, offering a designer compact historical models for decorative capitals and border vignettes.

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