Traité des tournois, joustes, carrousels, et autres spectacles publics
A 1669 French treatise on tournaments, jousts, carrousels and public spectacles, written by Claude-François Menestrier with engravings by Nicolas Auroux and Claude Derbage, printed at Lyon for courtly and festival readers. Its pictures are small engraved historiated initials, each letter framed and filled with a figure such as a seated man with a lion, a woman with a cupid, or a bearded old man; a designer could draw on their hatched line work and compact framed letter forms for decorative capitals.
