Basse-contre. Le printemps de Claud. Le Jeune, natif de Valentienne, compositeur de la musique de la chambre du Roy. A deux. 3. 4. 5. 6 et 8 parties.
A 1603 Paris music book by Claude Le Jeune, composer to the king's chamber, printed by Pierre Ballard as a bass-contra part for his multi-voiced chansons in two to eight parts. The page shows a decorated initial S beside a line of staff notation with French text set beneath the notes, and a designer might take its ornate woodcut-style capital and dense staff rhythm as a model for historical typographic structure.
