Livre de melanges de C. le Jeune. Quinta pars.
Claude Le Jeune's Livre de mélanges, fifth part, printed by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp in 1585, is a collection of sixteenth-century polyphonic chansons and motets issued as separate part-books for singers. The pages are dense with black mensural notation, text underlaid beneath staves, and small woodcut initials and ornamental headpieces at the start of each piece, offering a designer sober, historically grounded models for musical typography, staff layout, and decorative capitals.
