Missale Nivernense
The Missale Nivernense is a printed Latin Mass missal, a liturgical service book for priests, produced in Paris by the printer Jean Du Pré around the close of the fifteenth century. Its pages pair dense black-letter text and red-and-blue initials with woodcut framed scenes, including a Trinity image, and with ruled red staff notation for chant. A designer might borrow the layered contrast of block text, illuminated capitals and small framed woodcut vignettes as a model for early typographic page layout.
