Superius. Continuation du mellange d'Orlande de Lassus. A 3. 4. 5. 6. & dix parties.
A 1584 Paris part-book of polyphonic chansons by Orlande de Lassus, published by Adrian Le Roy for singers and musicians. Its four pages show staff-notation music in several voices, each opening with an ornate historiated initial letter enclosing small figure scenes and foliage. A designer could take the decorative capitals, with their framed vignettes and scrollwork, as a model for ornamental initials and borders.
