Tenor. Septieme livre de pseaumes de David. Mis en musique a quatre parties en forme de motetz. Par Claude Goudimel
A 1566 Paris printed tenor partbook by Claude Goudimel, issued by Adrian Le Roy, setting the seventh book of David's psalms as four-part motets in French for singers. Its pages show printed staff music with black-letter-like psalm texts set beneath the notes, and large decorated initial letters framed by foliage and engraved ornament. A designer could draw on the historic woodcut initials, the dense ornamental borders and the rhythmic arrangement of notes and staves for period-styled layouts.
