Thesaurus musices
Thesaurus musices is a 1500 incunable on music theory by Antonius Russus, printed by Olivinus de Bruges and held by the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, written for students and scholars of music. Its single picture is a wide woodcut diagram of a horizontal line of evenly spaced dots with curved connecting strokes and labelled note names, framed by ornamental end pieces, offering a designer an example of early printed diagrammatic layout and tidy modular repetition.
