Exhortation faicte par Monseignevr l'Archidvc d'A vstrie, gouuerneur & capitaine general des pays bas aux Estats generaux desdits pays. Item les poincts & articles proposez par sadicte Altez e aux Estats generaux, auec La harangue de messire Elbert Leoninus ...
A 1579 printed French political document issued in Lyon by Benoît Rigaud, containing an exhortation by Archduke Matthias, governor of the Low Countries, to the Estates General during the Dutch revolt, with a harangue by Engelbert de Leeuw. The pictured page is an ornamental title-page emblem: a bearded sage in a robe gestures toward a kneeling or standing child beside a plant, framed by an oval cartouche with Latin inscription and scrolled woodcut border. A designer might take its strapwork frame, Latin lettering set around an oval, and simple emblematic figure composition as reference for period borders and cartouche layouts.
