vdm16 
Scaenica progymnasmata.

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

BASICS
Title page:

Joãnis Reuchlin || Phorcensis Scenica Progymnas=||mata. Hoc est. Ludicra preexercita=||menta.|| Sebastianus Brant.|| [8 line poem: Accipe Vangionum presul…].|| Nihil sine causa.|| Olpe.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Editor: Basilius Wilde
Printer:
[Melchior Lotter the Elder]
Place of printing:

[Leipzig]

Year:
[1503 c.]
Further information on dating: The year of publication is deduced from the date of the dedication letter.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
USTC 669231
VD16 R 1254
vdm
101
Further details:

The type is that of Lotter; extremely similar to vdm 605 with only minor differences.

Dedicatee:
Johann von Dalberg
Further contributors: Jacob Trach; Johann Bergmann von Olpe; Sebastian Brant; Adam Werner; Basilius Wilde
Paratexts:

A1r: Poems by Sebastian Brant and Johann Bermann von Olpe.
A1v-2r: Dedication from Basilius Wilde to Stephan Schligk, Leipzig, 5. Id. July [11 July] 1503.
A2r: Dedication of play by Johann Bergmann von Olpe to Johann von Dalberg, dated Basel, 1 May 1498.
C5r-v: poem by Jacob Trach in praise of his teacher Johannes Reuchlin.
C5v-6r: poem by Adam Werner to the editor of Reuchlin’s play, Johannes Richartzhusen.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 97 x 147.5 mm
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A6, B4, C6.
Autopsy copy:

D-B 9 in: Inc. 2406<a>

Online facsimile:

D-B


D-B 9 in Inc. 2406(a), A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Textura, Rotunda

Remarks on printing:

Textura used as display type.

Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
4
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

staves:
Mortalium: 92 x 14 mm
Digna: 101.5 x 13.5 mm
Musis: 126 x 14 mm
Cedant: 123 x 14.5 mm
(it was impossible to measure the length of the latter two staves precisely because they run so far into the gutter)

Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Four monophonic choruses: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula (A6r); Digna sunt Apolline (B2r); Musis poetis et sacro (B3v); Cedant fori contentio et iurgia (C1v).

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

CH-Bu, CH-Bu, CH-Lw, *D-B, D-BS, D-Dl, F-Ps, NL-DHk

Related editions:

Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata phorcensis.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata (a).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1514, vdm: 586


Scaenica progymnasmata (b).

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1515, vdm: 79


Scaenica progymnasmata (a).

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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, 1534, vdm: 100


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


D-B 9 in Inc. 2406(a), A6r
COPIES
CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: DB IX 47
CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: DB IX 47a
CH-Lw (Luzern, Provinzarchiv Schweizer Kapuziner)
Shelfmark: Z 164b
D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: 9 in: Inc. 2406<a>
Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Gothic white leather binding, over oak boards, with diaper pattern on front and rosette on back cover. New clasp in period style.
Content of composite volume:

1. Julius II. Bulla intimationis generalis Concilij apud Lateranum .... Rom) [= Leipzig]: Giacomo Mazzocchi [= Melchior Lotter d.Ä.], [c. 1511].
2. Egidio da Viterbo. Oratio prima Synodi sive concilii Lateranensis habita per R. P. Egidium Viterbiens. August. Ord. Generalem. [Wittenberg: Gronenberg, 1512].
3. Hilarius Litomericensis. Tractatus contra perfidiam aliquorum Bohemorum. [Strasbourg: Georg Husner], 1485.
4. Henricus de Hassia, Secreta Sacerdotum. Leipzig: Lotter, 1498.
5. J. Gerson: Sermo de conceptiones Mariae virginis. [Cologne: J. Guldenschaff, n. d.]
6. Georgius Orterus. Repetitio fabulosae narrationis. Leipzig: [Brandis], 1490.
7. Theodolus. Ecloga Theoduli. Leipzig: Kachelofen, 1489.
8. Petrus de Abano. Tractatus de venenis. Leipzig: Thanner, 1500.
9. Reuchlin. Scenica progymnasmata. [Leipzig: Lotter, c. 1503.]

Provenance:

Ausgustinians of Erfurt, 1619 (frontispiece of first item in volume)

Link to online scan:

D-B

D-BS (Braunschweig, Stadtarchiv und Stadtbibliothek)
D-Dl (Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
F-Ps (Paris, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne)
Shelfmark: VCINC 8= 159
NL-DHk (Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland)
Shelfmark: KW 225 J 23