Declaration du roy, portant prolongation du terme, pour le conuertissement des especes d'or legeres en especes d'or de poids, iusques au dernier decembre 1640 : verifiée en la Cour des Monnoyes le vnziéme octobre 1640.
A 1640 royal decree issued under Louis XIII of France and printed in Paris by Sebastien Cramoisy, concerning the conversion of light gold coins into full-weight gold coins. The first picture is a crowned heraldic coat of arms with fleurs-de-lis and a wreath of foliage, and the second is a large decorative initial letter I built from interlaced vines and scrolls. A designer might take from them the dense, woodcut-like carved line of French royal emblems and the ornamental framing of a printed capital letter.
