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Le Triumphe et la pompe magnificque faictz aux Baptisailles du duc Francoys, fils de Monseigneur le Daulphin, célébré à Fontainebleau le dixiesme jour du moys de Febvrier M.CCCCC.XLIIII.

1544 · Guyon Boudeville · 3 pictures

A 1544 French printed account, published by Guyon Boudeville, of the christening festivities for the Duke François at Fontainebleau, written for a royal and court readership. The pictures are a tooled brown leather binding with a gilt armorial wreath on the cover and a black-ground woodcut initial M of ornate foliage, suggesting a designer might take the gilt cartouche framing and the dense interlaced-leaf initial as models for decorative borders and capitals.

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