SVSANNA || COMOEDIA TRA⸗||GICA.|| Per Xystum Betulium || Augustanum.|| [printer’s mark] || COLONIAE Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat.|| Anno M. D. XXXXI.||

see title page.

Heraldic seahorse holding a sceptre with a stork on the top (title page).

Cologne

Humanist book

Earlier editions: vdm 820 and vdm 826. The woodblocks used for both of these editions were reused for the 1541 edition as well.

A1v: PVERI IN LAVDEM || AGRIPPINAE VRBIS IN QVA || repetita est actio.|| (The text of the following polyphonic song is printed in full (“Agrippina tibi laudibus inclytæ, || Germani imperii quæ decus omnium || …”).
F7v: IOANNIS VLIEGH KEMPENSIS || dimetrum de turpi amore.|| [...] || EIVSDEM DIMETRVM DE SVSANNA.||

Latin

A-Wn Alt Prunk 35.N.33

D-Rs, A-Wn

woodcut

Antiqua (Roman), Italic

Mensural notation

full-length staff (A2r): 81 x 12,5 mm

The music is set out in an awkward way: the four voice parts simply run one after the next (discantus, tenor, altus, bassus) in such a way that it is impossible for them to be sung at the same time from the same copy.

polyphonic song

This edition contains only one piece: a four-voice setting in praise of “Agrippina urbs” (Cologne), which comes before the start of the play.

*A-Wn, D-BMs, D-Dl, D-GOl, D-Rs, D-W, D-WRtl, D-WRz

A copy of this edition was in the library of Joseph Müller.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1538, vdm: 820

Birck, Sixt. Sämtliche Dramen, edited by Manfred Brauneck, Hildegard Brauneck, and Manfred Wacht. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1969-1980 (2: 507-510)

Katalog der musikalischen Bibliothek des verstorbenen Dr. Joseph Müller Bibliothekar der Königl. Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin. … Die Versteigerung … findet am Montag den 4. Dezember 1882 und folgende Tage … statt. 2 vols. (Berlin: Leo Liepmannssohn, 1882) (II, nº 875)