Relation des missions des PP. de la Compagnie de Iesus dans les isles, & dans la terre ferme de l'Amerique Meridionale. : Diuisée en deux partie : auec vne Introduction à la langue des Galibis sauuages de la terre ferme de l'Amerique.
A 1655 Jesuit mission report printed in Paris by the Cramoisy brothers, describing the Society of Jesus's missions among the Galibi peoples in the islands and mainland of South America, with a language introduction; the record names a Versailles mission house as author. The four pictures are printed woodcut ornaments and an initial: foliate scrollwork bands with flowers and figures, a letter I with a scene of robed figures, and a winged human head, all on aged paper. A designer could take the dense, interlaced foliage and the compact capital letter as models for historical decorative borders and chapter openings.
