Libelli De ecclesiastica et politica potestate elenchus : pro suprema Romani Pontificis in Ecclesiam autoritate
A 1612 Latin treatise on church authority by André Du Val, printed in Paris by Franciscus Iacquin for a scholarly and clerical readership, addressing Gallican disputes over papal power. The picture is a single decorative woodcut initial N, its letter formed from interlaced ornament with grotesque foliage, a small figure, and a curled scroll, offering a designer a model for historical capital letters built from vines and fanciful creatures.
