Causes de la séparation de biens et d'habitation d'entre damoiselle Catherine Arnauld et Me Isaac Le Maistre son mary... et après sont imprimés les arrests intervenus entre lesdites parties...
A 1619 French legal pamphlet, a factum printed for the separation of goods and residence between Catherine Arnauld and her husband Isaac Le Maistre, with court rulings appended; it is a court brief written by Antoine Arnauld for the legal profession. The pictures are letter-initial woodcut ornaments in a 17th-century French style: a large capital E framed by curling acanthus scrolls, grotesque animal heads and leafy vines, one showing a standing man with a staff inside the letter. A designer could take the framed capital and interlaced foliage as models for decorative initials and borders.
