Contra. Livre de chansons a cinc parties : avec deux dialogues : a huit. D'Orlande de Lassus.
A 1581 Paris printed partbook of five-part French chansons by Orlande de Lassus, published by Adrian Le Roy for singers and musicians. Its pages show engraved music staves with decorated historiated initials, the large capitals containing small figures and foliage. A designer could draw on these ornamental initials and the dense rhythmic staff notation for period typography.
