Meslanges de sujets chrestiens, cantiques, litanies et motets. Mis en musique, à 2, 3, 4, & 5 parties, avec une Basse-continuë. Dediez à Madame la Duchesse d'Orleans. Par Estienne Moulinié de Languedoc, chef ordinaire de la musique de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans. Basse-continue.
This is a 1658 Paris basso continuo part book by Étienne Moulinié, published by Jacques de Sanlecque and dedicated to the Duchess of Orléans, containing sacred songs, litanies and motets for two to five voices. Its pages are dense rows of staff lines with figured bass numbers under the notes, each opening with a large ornamental historiated initial letter set in a woodcut frame and a running heading 'BASSE-CONTINUE'; the figures and printed notation offer a strong sense of early typographic music layout.
