Ordonnance dv Roy, portant inionction aux Officiers & domestiques de Monsieur le Duc d'Orleans son Frere, de se retirer pres sa personne, & aux autres qui sont hors le Royaume, deffences d'y retourner, sur les peines contenues par icelle
A royal ordinance printed in Paris in 1631 under King Louis XIII, ordering the officers and household of his brother Gaston, Duke of Orléans, to withdraw from his person and forbidding those abroad to return, and held by the Boston Public Library. The only picture is an engraved library seal, a laurel wreath enclosing two classical male figures flanking an open book and a lyre, with the lettering 'The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston 1852-1878', so it reads as an ornate emblem rather than an illustration from the text. A designer could draw on its symmetrical wreath border and paired classical figures for heraldic or seal-style marks.
