Aeternae Henrici magni, gallorum, navarrorumque Regis potentissimi, ac Clementissimi memoriae. Et Ludovici justi : eius filii. Gallorum, navarrorumque Regis christianissimi, atque inuictissimi. Nicolaus Formé, regiae musicae praefectus. Missam hanc duobus choris ac quatuor voc. compositam, vovet et consecrat. Secundus chorus. Contra.
A 1638 Paris printed mass for two choirs and four voices by Nicolas Formé, a royal music master, dedicated to the memory of King Henri IV and his son Louis XIII, and issued by the publisher Pierre Ballard. The pages show engraved part-books of polyphonic music with black diamond-shaped noteheads on staves, ornate decorated initial letters, and a small engraved headpiece of figures; a designer might take the clean rhythm of staff lines and the elaborate capitals as models for ordered, historic typography.
