Ordonnances d'Abeville, svr le faict de la ivstice & abreuiation des procés au pays de Dauphiné ...
A legal ordinance printed at Grenoble in 1646 by A. Verdier for the Parlement of Grenoble, governing justice and the speeding of lawsuits in the Dauphiné region of France. The picture is a small black heraldic cartouche with a crown, shield and wreath, printed on a handwritten or annotated page with cursive ink marks around it, suggesting a designer could draw on the emblem's symmetry and the contrast of crisp print against faded manuscript.
