Le manifeste de Ferdinand, Dvc de Baviere, Roy des Romains, envoyé a tovs les roys, princes & republiques Chrestiennes & Catholiques, pour la conseruation des droits des princes catholiques à l'Empire; contre les desseins des protestans.
A 1619 Paris printed manifesto by Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, published by T. Menard and addressed to Catholic kings, princes and republics against Protestant claims to the Empire. The picture is a page of French text opening with a large decorated initial C of foliate scrollwork, and a designer might take from it the dense justified setting of black-letter-style roman type and the contrast between an ornate capital and plain running text.
