Harangve faicte de la part de la Chambre Ecclesiastiqve : En celle du Tiers estat, sur l'article du serment
A 1615 Paris printed speech by Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron, issued by the publisher Antoine Estienne, concerning the oath of allegiance between the clergy and the Third Estate, a French political and religious text. The four pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a large decorated initial M, an ornate initial L with foliage, a band of grotesque beasts around a central mask, and a tailpiece showing a man beside a tree with a serpent curling from it and a Latin motto above. A designer might take from them the dense, knotted acanthus-style scrollwork and the crisp black-line woodcut vocabulary of early seventeenth-century French book decoration.
