Jacques Mercier et Claude Cotton pour l'union des deux abbayes de S. Vincent du Mans et S. Germain des Prez, membres dépendants de la Congrégation de Chesalbenoît réformée en France, à la Congrégation des Pères de Sainct Maur
A 1636 French legal factum, a printed memorandum in procedural law from the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, prepared for the Congregation of Saint Maur to argue a merger of two Benedictine abbeys. Its four pictures are historiated woodcut initials, letters H, P, M and C, each framing small scenes of figures, a town, and animals; a designer might take their dense hatching and ornamental capital-letter framing as models for decorative drop caps.
