Meslanges de la musique de Clau. Le Jeune a 4. 5. 6. 8. & 10. parties. Contra.
A polyphonic music book of part-songs by Claude Le Jeune, printed in Paris in 1587 by Adrian Le Roy for singers and musicians. The pages show staff notation in multiple voice parts with lines of text set beneath the notes, each opening with a decorated historiated initial letter. A designer might take the ornate woodcut initials and their tight framing of foliage and figures as models for decorative capitals and borders.
