Histoire Dv Roy Lovis Le Grand: Par les Medailles, Emblêmes, Deuises, Jettons, Inscriptions, Armoiries et autres Monumens Publics
Claude-François Menestrier's 1693 history of Louis XIV, printed in Paris for a French royal and learned readership, presents the king's reign through engraved medals, emblems, devices and inscriptions. Its pages are arranged as grids of roundels, each with a small allegorical scene and a Latin motto set in the margin. A designer could take the compact circular framing, the emblematic figures of classical deities and personifications, and the terse Latin legends as models for seals, badges or commemorative insignia.
