La Silvanire, ou, La morte-vive
A 1631 Paris pastoral play by Jean de Mairet, printed by F. Targa, held by the University of Ottawa, probably aimed at a literate French reading public. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials and ornamental letter frames: a large foliate capital L with a figure, a circular frame enclosing a stylised flower with scrolled leaves, and a repeated flower-and-scroll motif. A designer could take from them the vocabulary of early modern French typographic ornament, with its interlaced foliage, scrolls and framed capitals.
