Il compendio della musica, nel quale brevemente si tratta dell'arte del contrapunto : diviso in quatro libri
Il compendio della musica is a 1588 Venetian treatise on counterpoint in four books, written by Orazio Tigrini and printed by Ricciardo Amadino for students and practising musicians. The two pictures are decorative woodcut initials, a large letter O and a letter S, each framed by stylised acanthus scrolls and leafy tendrils cut in bold black line. A designer could take from them the dense, hand-cut vegetal borders of Renaissance printing as a model for letterforms, frames, or ornamental capitals.
