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Lilium musicae planae.

Basel: Michael Furter, 1496, vdm: 1324

BASICS
Title page:

Lilium Musice plane || Michaelis Keinspeck || musici Alexandrini.||

Colophon:

Explicit Lilium Musice plane Michaelis Keinspeck de || Nurnberga musici Alexandrini bñmeriti.in inclita vniuer-||sitate Basiliensi ꝑ eundem resumpta. Atq𝔷 ꝑ Michaelem || Furter ciuē Basilieñ impressū Anno &c. Nonagesimosexto.||

Author:
Michael Keinspeck
Printer:
Michael Furter
Place of printing:

Basel

Year:
1496
Further information on dating: Taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 442
USTC 746550
GW M16243
ISTC ik00008500
vdm
1324
Further details:

Fétis cites an edition printed at Straßburg by Knobloch in 1506. This is not attested elsewhere, and is thus clearly an error.
ISTC number: ik00008500.

Paratexts:

a1v-a2v: Prologus || Musica ars modulatiua ||

Illustrations:

A1v: decorated initial.
A3r: woodcut chart of the Greater Perfect System, with hexachords; only the descriptions to the left are set in type.
A5v–B1r: short woodcuts indicating intervals.
B2v–6v: short woodcuts indicating psalm tones.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 115 x 156 mm
Number of leaves:
12
Collation: a–b6
Original foliation:

none.

Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl K.1.h.2.(1.)

Online facsimile:

CH-Bu


CH-Bu FP VII 20-6, a1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda

Notation:

Hufnagel notation

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

first music example on a5v: 34 x 13 mm (staff system)

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Basic music theory (intervals) and psalm tones.

Copies:

A-Gu, CH-Bu, D-FRu, D-HEu, D-Rtt, D-Tu, *D-Z, F-Pn, *GB-Lbl

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was once held in the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (see Vollhardt).

Related editions:

Lilium musicae planae.

Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1497, vdm: 1325


Lilium musicae planae.

Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1498, vdm: 1326


Lilium musicae planae.

Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1500, vdm: 482


Lilium musicae planae.

Strasbourg: Matthias Hupfuff, 1506, vdm: 481

Secondary literature:

Ammel, Winfried. Michael Keinspeck und sein Musiktraktat Lilium Musicae Planae, Basel 1496. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970
Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 125-126, No 221)


CH-Bu FP VII 20-6, a5v
COPIES
A-Gu (Graz, Universitätsbibliothek)
CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: FP VII 20:6
Link to online scan:

CH-Bu

D-FRu (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek)
D-HEu (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek)
Provenance:

From the library of the Cistercian abbey in Salem.

D-Rtt (Regensburg, Fürst Thurn und Taxis Hofbibliothek und Zentralbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 8Inc.409
D-Tu (Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Tke 37
D-Z (Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 24, 10, 26
Comments:

This volume contains a mixture of printed and manuscript works, including a number of manuscript treatises on music.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Oak boards, quarter-bound in rollstamped pigskin.
Content of composite volume:

1. Sententiosa dicta Baptiste Mantuani (Leipzig: Monacensis, 1512).
2. Iacobus Purlillarum comes de liberorum educatione (Strasbourg: Schott, 1510).
3. [Pseudo-] Vergil, Carmina (Leipzig: Lotter, 1512). On A2r is a short metrical melody for the enunciation of the Hortulus, added by hand.
4. Tractatus de modo discendi (n. p.: n. p., n. d.).
5. Henningi Pyrgalli Hyldensemensis de verbi divini incarnatione iubilus (n. p.: n. p., n. d.).
6. Beati Joannis Chrysostomi […] sermo de mala et bona muliere pulcherrimus (Leipzig: Herbipolensis, 1513).
7. Canon sacratissime Misse (Leipzig: Monacensis, 1498).
8. De venerabili sacramento [ms].
9. Prefacio de laudibus et effectibus musice Sciencie [ms].
10. M. Keinspeck, Lilium musice plane (Basel: Furter, 1496) [the present copy].
11. U. Burchardi, Hortulus musices (Leipzig: Stöckel, 1514).
12. Musica quanta veneracione olim habita sit […] [ms].
The rest of the volume comprises a number of music theoretical treatises from c. 1500 in manuscript.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Hortulus musices practicae [Lotter 1514] (b) - D-Z

Provenance:

“Legantur cum iuditio” written in red on the inside of the front cover. Motto of Stefan Roth (theologian from Zwickau GND 119167360).

F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: K.1.h.2/1
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Content of composite volume:

1. Keinspeck, Lilium Musice, Basel 1496
2. Prasberger, Clarissima plane atque choralis musice, Basel 1501

Bound with copies from vdm:

Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio [Furter 1501] (a) - GB-Lbl