Jo. Mathaei Magni De praesenti Parisiensis Academiae rerum statu oratio : ad doctissimum & prudentissimum virum Claudium Altitectium in Senatu Parisiensi causarum patronum.
A Latin oration by Jean Mathieu Legrand, printed in Paris in 1588 by Denys Du Pré, addressed to the lawyer Claude Altitectius and concerned with the University of Paris. The two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a symmetrical bracket of satyr-like figures, scrolls and a horned mask, and a laurel wreath framing an oval scene of a warrior with a sword beside a kneeling figure, both suited to designers seeking Renaissance decorative devices and border motifs.
