Musica nova di Adriano Willaert all'illustrissimo et eccellentissimo signor il signor donno Alfonso d'Este prencipe di Ferrara. Quinta pars.
A 1559 Venetian music book of polyphonic vocal part-music by Adriaan Willaert, printed by Antonio Gardano and dedicated to Alfonso d'Este, Prince of Ferrara. The pages show decorated initial letters beside staff notation with Latin text set under the black and white note heads. The historiated initials, with small figures in landscape scenes, offer a designer ready examples of Renaissance letter ornament framing a text block.
