Origines des chevaliers, armoiries et heraux, ensemble de l'ordonnance, armes, [et] instruments desquels les François ont anciennement usé en leurs guerres; recueillies

Fauchet, Claude, 1744-1792 · 1606 · Paris, Perier · 6 pictures

A 1606 Paris publication by Claude Fauchet, issued by the Perier press, on French knights, heraldry, heralds and wartime arms and equipment, written for readers of early modern French history. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials, each a letter framed in foliage, scrollwork, animals and figures, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and historiated letter frames.

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