Motets pour la chapelle du Roy, mis en musique, par Monsieur Du Mont abbé de Silly, & maistre de la musique, de ladite chapelle. Basse de violon.
A 1686 Paris printed collection of motets by Henry Du Mont, composed for the royal chapel of Louis XIV and published by Christophe Ballard, here in the bass violin part. The pictures show engraved music pages, each opening with a large ornamental initial letter (M, S, D, B) decorated with foliage and small figures, followed by staves of square-headed notes and Latin text; a designer could take the decorative capitals as models for historical display lettering and the tight, regular staff layouts as a structure for ordered text setting.
