Facvltez octroyees par nostre Sainct Pere le Pape Clement VIII. au Reuerendissime Cardinal de Florence, legat du S. Siege Apostolique, enuoyé au Tres-Chrestien Roy de France & de Nauarre Henry IIII. & au Royaume de France: auec les lettres patentes dudit Seigneur Roy.
A 1596 Paris printed document issued by the Catholic Church and printed by Pierre L'Huillier, granting powers from Pope Clement VIII to a cardinal sent to King Henry IV of France, with royal letters patent attached. The pictures are small decorative printer's ornaments: a large woodcut initial H framed by foliage and a face, and a historiated-style initial E with fleur-de-lis scrollwork beside black-letter French text. A designer could draw on their dense interlaced foliage, grotesque faces, and the contrast between heavy black initials and light serif type.
