Missale Parisiense
A Parisian printed missal from the late fifteenth century, produced by the printer Jean du Pré for use in church services. Its pages show a black-letter text with red rubrics and hand-painted initials, and the pictures are mostly large decorated capitals in blue and red with curling pen flourishes and musical notation staves. A designer could take from them the look of early printed type set beside hand-coloured ornament, with the blue and red capitals and dense text blocks offering a model for historical decorative lettering.
