Le palais des cvrievx; auquel sont assemblées plusieurs diuersitez pour le plaisir des Doctes, & le bien de ceux qui desirent sçauoir ..
A 1612 Paris printing by Béroalde de Verville, a miscellany of curiosities and learned diversions for scholars and readers wanting knowledge, with a utopian subject. The four pictures are historiated-style decorative initial letters, each a large letter I set inside dense black foliage with curling leaves and scrollwork on a cream ground. A designer could take from them a model for ornamental capitals, with the letter form standing clear against interlaced vine-like ornament.
