Superius. Septieme livre de pseaumes de David. Mis en musique a quatre parties en forme de motetz. Par Claude Goudimel
A 1566 Paris publication printed by Robert Ballard, a set of four-part psalm motets by Claude Goudimel for singers, set in music notation with decorated initials and a title page. The pages show mensural music staves in black ink on cream paper, with a large engraved historiated initial A and D, a richly framed title cartouche with putti and masks, and a woodcut of musicians and a seated figure. A designer might take the framed cartouche layout, the ornamental initials and the dense rhythm of the staff lines as period models for typography and page structure.
