Drey schöne Lieder : das erst: nach Willen dein, ich mich dir etc. : das ander: Rosina wo was dein Gestalt etc. : das dritt: Ehrn werdt auff Erd
A late sixteenth-century German songbook title page from 1590, with three songs printed in black-letter type and no named publisher, likely issued for household singers. The page is framed by ornamental strapwork borders, and a small hand-coloured woodcut of a standing woman in a dark bodice, red-and-white patterned skirt and a sprig in one hand sits in the centre. A designer could take the dense blackletter lettering, the decorative vertical border bands and the simple flat colour of the woodcut as a model for historical typography and folk print styling.
