Motets pour la chapelle du Roy, mis en musique, par Monsieur Du Mont abbé de Silly, & maistre de la musique, de ladite chapelle. Haute-contre de violon.
A 1686 Paris printed collection of motets by Henry Du Mont, abbé de Silly and master of music to the French royal chapel, issued by Christophe Ballard as the high-contre part for violin. Each page opens with a decorated historiated initial letter beside staves of square-headed black notes on five-line staves, with Latin text printed under the music. For a designer the strongest takeaway is the pairing of a dense ornamental capital with orderly, rhythmic musical notation as a classic page layout.
