Contra. Continuation du mellange d'Orlande de Lassus. A 3. 4. 5. 6. & dix parties.
A 1584 Paris printing by Adrian Le Roy of polyphonic French chansons by Orlande de Lassus, issued as a continuation of his mellange for voices in three to ten parts. The pages are music books with engraved decorated initial letters beside staves of notes and French song text set in lines beneath them. A designer might take the ornate woodcut initials and the dense, regular rhythm of the staves as a model for historical music typography and layout.
