Les panégyriques des saints
Les panégyriques des saints is a 1664 French devotional book of saints' panegyrics, published in Paris by G. Soly and written by Maruc, abbé de, for a Catholic readership. Its pictures are decorative woodcut initials built from a large letter M framed by flowers, leaves and scrollwork, plus a floral spray ornament; a designer might take their dense black letterforms and botanical filling as models for initial caps and border ornament.
