L'Homme chrestien, ou, La reparation de la nature par la grace
A 1663 Paris printed devotional treatise, L'Homme chrestien by Jean-François Senault, published by Pierre le Petit for a Catholic reading public. Its pictures are historiated woodcut initials, each a large letter L set inside a decorative frame of foliage, flowers, and rope or bead borders, with the same design repeated in several sizes. A designer could take from them a clear template for a framed capital letter with stylised acanthus-like scrolls and tulip sprigs.
