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Lilium musicae planae.

Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1497, vdm: 1325

BASICS
Title page:

Lilium Musice plane Michael || Keinspeck musici Alexandrini.|| [woodcut] ||

Colophon:

[ornament] Explicit Lilium Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck de Nürnberga Musici Alexan-||drini benemeriti Vna cu𝔷 psalmodie vtriusq𝔷 || tam maioris q̃𝔷 minoris intonatōe.secundum || omnes tonos.et exercicio solmisandi Nouiter || adiunctis. Impressum Vlme per Johānem || Schäffler.Anno salutis.M.cccc.xcvii.||

Author:
Michael Keinspeck
Printer:
Johann Schäffler
Place of printing:

Ulm

Year:
1497
Further information on dating: taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 442
USTC 746551
GW M16245
ISTC ik00009000
vdm
1325
Further details:

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


Paratexts:

A2r-A2v: Prologus || [m]usica ars modulatiua || [...] (preface)

Illustrations:

fol. A1r: Woodcut on the title page. Pythagoras and Lady Musica stand in front of a wheel that has bells at the end of its spokes and a bird perched on its top. Pythagoras holds a hammer in his right hand, and a banner with solmisation syllables in his left. Lady Musica has a pointer in her left hand, and holds the wheel with her right. To her right is a banner with the inscription: “Ach muß mir selbs frewd machen || wān schwartze varb wert' mir lache” (“Oh, I must make pleasure for myself when black colour [i.e. melancholia] laughs at me”) (c. 89 x 89 mm).
fol. A3v: Woodcut of a Hexachord system.


Language:

Latin

Format:
Printed area: 92 x 146 mm (A2r)
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A-B8
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738


Online facsimile:

D-Mbs, US-Wcm


D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Schwabacher, Textura

Remarks on printing:

Rotunda is used as a display font; Schwabacher is used for the main text. Textura is only used on the title page.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

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

full-length staff (B2r): 92 x 12 mm


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Chapters on the scales, the hexachord system, on intervals and psalm tones. At the end of the book there is an exercise for singing solmisation ("Exerc[i]tium Solmisandi"). Music pages: A6-A8, B2-B7.


Copies:

A-Wn, D-B, D-F, D-FRu, *D-Mbs, D-Rs, D-Sl, D-Tu, GB-Lbl, US-R, US-Wcm

Related editions:

Lilium musicae planae.

Basel: Michael Furter, 1496, vdm: 1324


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
Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)


D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738, B2r
COPIES
A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink 11.H.72

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)

D-F (Frankfurt am Main, Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg)

D-FRu (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Ink. F 9282, a

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4° Mus.th. 738
Condition:

Good. This copy might have been part of a composite volume because a book tab on fol. A2 has been ripped out.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown card.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

fols. A2r, B2r: marginalia.
Later foliation and marks in pencil.

Provenance:

Inside front cover: book plate of the BIBLIOTHECA REGIA MONACENSIS.

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs


D-Rs (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: 999 IM/4Inc.237

D-Sl (Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Inc.qt.9761

D-Tu (Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 2 in: De 4.4

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: G.8951 = IA.9444
Comments:

The copy is inspected by Duggan.

Description of binding: Leather with gold Grenville arms and RT. HONBLE THOS. GRENVILLE.
Provenance:

Grenville copy.

Secondary literature:

Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)


US-R (Rochester, NY, University, Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library)

US-Wcm (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division)
Link to online scan:

US-Wcm