Parasceve generalle a l'exact examen de l'institution de l'eucharistie : contre la particuliere interpretation des religionnaires de nostre temps
A 1602 French theological treatise on the Eucharist, written by Jean Porthaise and printed in Poitiers by I. Blanchet, aimed at Catholic readers arguing against Protestant interpretations of the Lord's Supper. The pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a pair of repeated symmetrical headpiece vignettes with a central mask-like face flanked by foliage, scrolls and pendants, and a repeated horizontal band of scrolling acanthus with a central grotesque figure. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical, scroll-based decorative vocabulary of early modern French book ornament.
