Traicté de la natvre de l'oevf des philosophes
A 1659 French alchemical treatise, Traicté de la natvre de l'oevf des philosophes, attributed to Bernard of Trevisan and printed in Paris, with its decorative type ornaments and initials. The pictures are woodcut-style printer's ornaments: a large historiated letter M framed in foliage, a potted bouquet of stylised flowers, and a strip of repeating scrolled and cross-shaped florets. A designer could take from them a sturdy, seventeenth-century vocabulary of ornament for initials, vignettes, and border bands.
