Superius. Sizieme livre de pseaumes de David. Mis en musique a quatre parties en forme de motetz. Par Claude Goudimel.
A 1565 Paris part-book of Claude Goudimel's four-part psalm motets, printed by Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard for singers and choirs. Its pages pair engraved decorated initial letters with dense black-letter music notation and French text laid out in staves, with a richly ornamented title page framed by figures and scrollwork. A designer might take the strong vertical rhythm of the staves, the ornate woodcut-style initials, and the cartouche-and-scroll title frame as models for decorative borders and typographic layout.
