Reglement du conseil d'Estat pour les greffiers des notifications des contracts
A 1630 French royal regulation issued by the Conseil d'Etat for the clerks who registered notifications of contracts, printed in Paris by M. Henault and held by the Boston Public Library. The pictures are small printer's ornaments: a heraldic crest with fleur-de-lis and crown, a decorated initial S with grotesque figures, a scrolling foliate border strip, and a later Boston Public Library seal with classical figures and laurel; a designer could take the crest and scrolled strapwork as period-appropriate ornament for formal documents.
