Les oeuvres d'Ovide
This is a 1697 Lyon edition of Ovid's collected works, published by Horace Molin for French-reading readers, and its pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters. The pictures show large ornamental capitals with scrolled, interlaced frames and leafy foliage, with one letter filled with a dense floral pattern. A designer could take from them the idea of a historiated initial built from strapwork and vine ornament that fills a letterform.
