Livre de melanges de C. le Jeune. Bassus.
This is a 1585 Antwerp partbook of Claude Le Jeune's polyphonic chansons, printed by Christophe Plantin for singers, with the bass line on each page. The pages show black-letter and roman musical notation on staff lines with decorative woodcut initials, a foliated ornamental capital in the upper left of each page, and dense rows of notes set under French text. A designer could draw on the ornate historical initial letters and the rhythmic, rule-ruled staff layouts of Renaissance music printing.
