Airs de cour avec la tablature de luth de Anthoine de Boesset, surintendant de la musique de la Chambre du Roy, & de la Reyne. Seiziesme livre.
This is a 1643 Paris music book of airs de cour by Antoine Boesset, Superintendent of Music to the King and Queen, printed by Robert Ballard for the French court and its circle. Its pictures are engraved decorative initial letters (large ornamented capitals with foliage and figures) set beside lines of staff notation with French song text beneath, showing how a designer might pair a historic ornamental capital with a musical score band.
