Bassus. Livre de chansons a cinc parties : avec deux dialogues : a huit. D'Orlande de Lassus.
A 1581 Paris printed partbook of five-part chansons by Orlande de Lassus, issued by publisher Adrian Le Roy for singers and musicians. The pages show bass-part music in staff notation with French text set beneath the notes, each opening with a large decorated historiated initial letter. A designer could draw on the dense, rhythmic arrangement of notes and text and on the ornate woodcut initials as models for typographic display.
