Aeternae Henrici magni, gallorum, navarrorumque Regis potentissimi, ac Clementissimi memoriae. Et Ludovici justi : eius filii. Gallorum, navarrorumque Regis christianissimi, atque inuictissimi. Nicolaus Formé, regiae musicae praefectus. Missam hanc duobus choris ac quatuor voc. compositam, vovet et consecrat. Primus chorus. Contra.
A 1638 Paris printed mass in part books by Nicolas Formé, royal music director, dedicated to the memory of Henri IV and the reign of Louis XIII, set for two choirs and four voices. Its pages are dense black-letter-style music notation with large decorative initials, a formal baroque printing aimed at church and court musicians. Designers could draw on the ornamental capitals, whose interlaced foliage and scrollwork fill each initial, and on the tidy, evenly spaced staff layouts.
