Articles, respondus par le Roy en son conseil priué, sur la requeste presentée par plusieurs habitans de la ville de Bourdeaux, & Seneschaulcée de Guyenne, sur le faict de la religion qu'on dict reformée.
A 1565 Paris printed royal decree from Charles IX, issued by the king's privy council in response to petitions from residents of Bordeaux and Guyenne about the reformed religion, printed by Charles Périer. The single picture is a large decorative initial S, its letter built from interlaced scrolls, foliage and a small grotesque face at the lower bowl, cut in a sixteenth-century woodcut manner. A designer could take from it the dense, contained energy of a letter filled with vine-like scrollwork, useful for ornamental capitals and historical borders.
