Edict du roy, par lequel Sa Majesté deffend à tous ses subjects, de quelque sexe, âge, condition, & qualité qu'ils soient, de porter ny vser aucuns passements poincts-couppez, & dentelles, sur les peines y contenuës.
This is a 1626 royal edict from Louis XIII of France, printed at Aix by printers Jean Tholosan and Étienne David, banning passementerie, cut-point lace and lace from subjects of every sex, age and rank. The one picture is an ornamental printer's border of repeated scrolled motifs above the edict's opening line, a pattern a designer could take as a dense, symmetrical strip for borders and headers.
