Recueil d'actes notariés relatifs à l'histoire de Paris et de ses environs au XVIe siècle
A French archival compilation of sixteenth-century Paris notarial records, edited by Ernest Coyecque and printed by the Imprimerie nationale in 1905. Its pictures are plates of medieval tomb effigies drawn as black line engravings, each standing figure framed by a ruled border with Gothic tracery, heraldic shields and lettered inscription bands. A designer might take from them the strict symmetry of framed single-figure plates and the crisp outline drawing of armour, vestments and tomb architecture.
