Excellent traicte de la peste : monstrant les causes et signes d'icelle, et les remedes les plus exquis tant pour la preseruation que pour la cure des malades, le tout bien approuué, & en diuers lieux heureusement experimenté
A 1583 French plague treatise by Antoine Royet, printed in Lyon for Jean Durant, setting out causes, signs and remedies for plague and its treatment. Its pictures are small printed decorative initials, a Q, L and P, built from scrolling foliage, birds and fantastic creatures, offering a designer models for ornamental letterforms and framed monogram layouts.
