Le Parnasse alarmé [microforme]
A 1649 Paris book by Gilles Ménage, a satirical pamphlet about the French Academy, held by the University of Ottawa and surviving only as a microform copy. The picture is a symmetrical printed ornament: a central oval cartouche of interlaced scrollwork flanked by leafy acanthus-like volutes, with a few lines of handwritten Italian script at the right edge, suggesting a designer could draw on seventeenth-century baroque cartouche and frame motifs.
![Picture 1 of 1 from Le Parnasse alarmé [microforme] (1649), leaf 1](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-fre_b1887884-1-0.webp)