Arrest du Conseil privé du roy, donné en faueur de Mr l'euesque de Lymoges, & des archeuesques & euesques, pour estre executé dans l'estendue de tous les dioceses du royaume. Contre les chanoines ayans cures, vicaities perpetuelles, ou autres beneficiers ayans charges d'ames, pour obter dans trois mois de la resignation de l'vn desdits benefices, & contre les curez non residans à leurs cures.
A 1634 French royal council decree printed in Paris by P. Rocolet, issued in favour of the bishop of Limoges and the archbishops and bishops, directed at canons and curates who hold parish cures and benefices. The one picture is a large decorative initial S set in a black woodcut frame of stylised flowers, leaves, and a pinecone-like bud, beside the opening lines of the text. A designer could take from it a compact model for an ornamental capital letter, with foliage that wraps the letter and fills the margin around it.
