Motets pour la chapelle du Roy, mis en musique, par Monsieur Du Mont abbé de Silly, & maistre de la musique, de ladite chapelle. Haute taille du grand choeur.
A 1686 Paris collection of motets by Henry Du Mont, printed by Christophe Ballard for the royal chapel, set out as a choir part for the high tenor voice. Each page opens with a large decorated initial letter in a woven, ornamental style, beside lines of square-note plainchant-style staves with Latin text set beneath the notes. A designer could take the dense band of interlaced ornament at the left edge of each page as a model for historical initials and the regular rhythm of staves and text as a model for structured page layouts.
