Basso. Harmonia d'affetti devoti a due, tre, e quatro voci consagrata all'altezza serenissima del signor prencipe Alessandro Farnesi di Parma, da Giovanni Legrenzi, primo organista di S. Maria Maggiore di Bergamo et accademico eccitato. Libro primo, opera terza.
This is a 1655 Venetian printed partbook of sacred motets for two, three and four voices, composed by Giovanni Legrenzi, organist at S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, and dedicated to Prince Alessandro Farnese of Parma. The three pictures are decorative woodcut initials, a large S and a large F, filled with scrolling foliage, figures and grotesque creatures. A designer could draw on their dense interlace, strapwork frames and figures set inside letterforms for historical ornament.
