Dreü gar Nützliche vnd fruchtbare lieder/ Jm thon Maria zart
This is a 1526 German hymnal of three useful and fruitful songs to be sung to the tune of Maria zart, by Jörg Preining with Sigmund Salminger, printed in Augsburg-area type by Philipp Ulhart the Elder for lay devotional singing. The pages are a dense black-letter text block framed by ornate woodcut borders of foliage and vases, with a large decorated initial letter opening the song text. A designer might take the interlocking leafy frame and the historiated initial as models for bordered text layouts and display capitals.
