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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1534, vdm: 100

BASICS
Title page:

❧IOANNIS || REVCHLIN PHORCENSIS. LL.|| doctoris comœdiæ duæ, Scenica progymnasma||ta,hoc est ludicra præexercitamenta || Et, Sergius uel Capitis || caput.|| ∴ || [printer's mark] || Coloniæ excudebat Ioannes Gymnicum || ANNO M D XXXIIII. ||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Johannes Gymnich the Elder
Printer's mark:

Heraldic seahorse with banderole inscribed: “DISCITE IVSTITIAM MONITI” (on title page).

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1534
Further information on dating: Taken from title page.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 MM 1746a
USTC 667612
VD16 R 1279, R 1296
vdm
100
Language:

Latin

Format:
8º
Printed area: 70 x 115 mm
Number of leaves:
24
Collation: A-C8
Autopsy copy:

D-HAu AB 34 B 3/i, 1(3)

Online facsimile:

D-HAu


D-HAu AB 34 B 3i, 1(3), A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

Antiqua is used as display font.

Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
3
Measurements:

fol. A5r, second system (Mortalium, Bassus): 67 x 9.5 mm; A7r, first system (Digna sunt, Discantus): 68 x 9.0 mm

Comments on notation:

The chorus Digna sunt Apolline is notated in blackened breves and semibreves, and with the time signature C3.

Genre:

dramatic chorus, polyphonic song

Repertoire:

Chorus at the end of each of the first four acts: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula, Digna sunt Apolline, Musis poetis et sacro, Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

D-BMs, *D-HAu, F-NAm, H-EG, RUS-SPsc

Related editions:

Scaenica progymnasmata.

[Strasbourg]: Johann Grüninger, 1498, vdm: 596


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[Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73


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[Leipzig]: [Melchior Lotter the Elder], [1503 c.], vdm: 101


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[Leipzig]: [Martin Landsberg], [1504], vdm: 605


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588


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Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77


Scaenica progymnasmata cum explanatione Iacobi Spiegel.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1512, vdm: 102


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1514, vdm: 75


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Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder & Hieronymus Vietor, 1514, vdm: 78


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Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1514, vdm: 586


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Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, [1514], vdm: 590


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1515, vdm: 79


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Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 592


Scaenica progymnasmata (b).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 593


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1518, vdm: 607


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Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 611


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 613


Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 612


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Nickel Schmidt, 1521, vdm: 614


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1521, vdm: 615


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1521, vdm: 616


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder, 1523, vdm: 81


Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528, vdm: 617


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1537, vdm: 82


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1540, vdm: 83


D-HAu AB 34 B 3i, 1(3), A4v
COPIES
D-BMs (Bremen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: IV.c.0311
D-HAu (Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt)
Shelfmark: AB 34 B 3/i, 1(3)
Condition:

fragile binding

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: dark brown leather on wood with rolled stamps forming a frame. Remnants of clasps.
Content of composite volume:

1. Quintillianus, Oratoriarum Institutionum libri Duodecim. Cologne: Johannes Soter, 1528
2. Quintillianus, Rhetoricas Institutiones (Petrus Mosel, Joachim Camerarus). Cologne: Johannes Soter, 1532
3. Reuchlin, Scaenica progymnasmata. Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1534, vdm 100

Provenance:

On front pastedown inscription by Johannes Schiller, artium liberalis Magister. "Huic bibliothecae anim0 liberalis dedicavit Anno 1591."

F-NAm (Nancy, Bibliothèque municipale)
Shelfmark: 262504
H-EG (Eger, Főegyházmegyei Könyvtár (Bibliotheca Archidiocesana))
RUS-SPsc (St Petersburg, Rossijskaja nacional'naja biblioteka im. M. E. Saltykova-Ščedrina)
Shelfmark: 6.3.6.29