Bassus. Continuation du mellange d'Orlande de Lassus. A 3. 4. 5. 6. & dix parties.
A 1584 Paris part-book of French polyphonic chansons by Orlande de Lassus, printed by Adrian Le Roy for singers of the bass part. Its pages show open musical staves in black type with large decorated initial letters, historically framed by a printer's ornamented capital and marginal text in French. A designer might take the dense, rhythmic staff lines and the ornate woodcut initials as a model for graphic borders and pattern.
