Compendiolvm mvsicae pro incipientibvs
This 1573 music theory primer by Heinrich Faber, printed in Nuremberg by Christoph Heussler for beginning singers, is a small black-letter text on counterpoint and musical notation. Its pages are dense rows of printed staves with black note heads, ligatures and mensural signs, set in ruled columns with Latin headings and short captions, giving a designer a clear model for strict, repeating grid layouts and typographic hierarchy in early modern print.
