Reqveste presentee av Roy par messievrs les Cardinaux, Princes, Seigneurs & des Deputez de la ville de Paris, & autres villes catholiques associéz & vnis pour la deffence de la religion Catholique Apostolique & Romaine.
A 1588 French pamphlet printed in Paris by Nicolas Nivelle, presenting a petition from the Catholic League cardinals, princes, lords and deputies of Paris to the king, concerning the defence of the Catholic religion. The single picture is a printer's ornament, a diamond-shaped block of dense black scrollwork with a central flower and a small initial-like mark in the upper corner, showing how sixteenth-century printers filled a page with decorative fillers. A designer could borrow its symmetrical, interlaced arabesque structure for pattern, border or ornamental motif work.
