Officiarium sacerdotum : ecclesie continens sacramenta : et modum administrandi ea : cum aliis commoditatibus que in ceteris desiderantur.
A Latin liturgical book printed in Paris in 1505 by Simon Vostre, a priest's manual of sacraments and church rites. Its pages set black square-note plainchant on red-ruled staves beneath Gothic black-letter text, with red initials and a woodcut historiated initial showing a figure and a winged bird among crowded onlookers. Designers can take from it the rhythm of dense black type against red rules, and the gridded compositional balance of a woodcut initial.
