Les images ov tableavs de platte peintvre de Philostrate lemnien sophiste grec
Les images ov tableavs de platte peintvre is a 1597 Paris edition of Philostratus's descriptions of painted pictures, translated into French by Blaise de Vigenère and published by Abel Langelier for a learned French readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, a large L and C with interlace, acanthus leaves, and foliage filling the letter bodies and borders, which a designer could take as models for ornamental capitals and frame borders.




























































































