Declaration dv Roy, svr l'arrest d'absolvtion ... donne en sa cour de Parlement de Paris, le trentiesme iour de Mars, mil six cens & deux, en faueur de Maistre Pierre Ioly, son procureur general ez ville de Metz, pays Messin &c.
A 1602 Paris royal declaration issued by Henry IV in favour of Pierre Joly, printed by R. Ruelle for the Parlement de Paris and held by the Newberry Library. The single picture is a printer's ornament, a symmetrical lozenge-shaped arrangement of scrolls, fleurs and foliage in black on cream paper, offering a designer a compact model for a centred decorative motif or border corner.
