Cantus monastici formula noviter impressa : ac in melius redacta : cui aliqua que deerant : consilio multoru[m] adiu[n]cta

Catholic Church, Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor. MB, Giunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457-1538, printer, Boston Public Library, binder. MB · 1523 · [Venice] : Luceantonii de Giuta · 22 pictures

A 1523 Venice printed book of Gregorian chant, issued by printer Luca-Antonio Giunta for use in church and monastic choirs. Its pages are full-width musical staves in black square notation, with red five-line staff rules, red and black initial capitals, and Latin text set beneath each line of notes. A designer might take its clean rhythmic grid of notes and staves, and the red-and-black capitals, as a model for ordered typographic layout.

Gregorian chants

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