Traité des tournois, joustes, carrousels, et autres spectacles publics
A 1669 treatise on tournaments, jousts and public spectacles by the Jesuit antiquary Claude-François Menestrier, printed at Lyon by Jacques Muguet for a learned readership of historians and courtly festival planners. The pictures are decorative historiated initials, each a large framed letter filled with a small engraved scene of figures, animals and drapery in fine parallel hatching, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and cross-hatched framing.
