L'Harmonie et conférence des magistrats romains avec les officier français, tant laiz que ecclésiastiques..
A legal treatise printed at Lyon in 1574 by B. Rigaud, written by Jean Duret to compare Roman magistrates with French secular and ecclesiastical officials. The pictures here are four decorative woodcut initials, P, C, M and C, set in square frames of dense hatching, leaf scrolls and foliage with the letter knocked out in pale paper. A designer could take from them the framed capital letter as a compact, texture-rich device for monograms, chapter openers or logo marks.
