Resolvtion dv roy, en son conseil. : Svr le departement du legat.
A 1625 French royal council resolution issued under Louis XIII, printed without a named publisher and concerning Cardinal Richelieu's department; the pictures are a large decorated capital M opening a letter and a repeating black ornamental border of scrolls and foliage. A designer could take from them the heavy engraved initial and the dense symmetrical strapwork border as models for bookplates, panel frames, or historical headers.
