Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1498, vdm: 1326
Lilium Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck musici Alexandrini || [woodcut] ||
¶ Explicit Lilium Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck de Nürmberga Musici Alexan⸗||drini benemeriti.|| Vna cū psalmodie vtriusq𝔷 || tam maioris q̃𝔷 minoris intonatione Scđm || omnes tonos. & exercitio solmisandi nouiter || adiunctis. Impressum Auguste per Johan⸗||nem Froschawer.Anno dñi.M.cccc.xcviij.||
Augsburg
Theory book
This book imparts basic knowledge about the singing of chant. It was published in various editions by various printers. Fétis cites an edition printed at Straßburg by Knobloch in 1506. This is not attested elsewhere, and is thus probably an error.
a2r-a2v: ¶ Prologus ||
Woodcut on the title page (88 x 90 mm): Pythagoras and Lady Musica standing in front of a wheel with cymbals. Pythagoras holds a hammer and a banner with the solmisation syllables. Lady Musica has a stick in her left hand and holds the wheel with the other hand. Beside her (on the right side of the frame) is another banner with the inscription: “Ach muß mir selbs frewd machen || wān schwartze varb wert mir lachē” (“Oh, I must make pleasure for myself when black complexion [i.e. melancholia] laughs at me”). The same illustration is used in the later Augsburg edition from 1500 (vdm 482).
Latin
None
A-Wn Ink 2.G.37
woodcut
Schwabacher, Uncial
Uncial initials begin new chapters or important sections of text. The text is set in Schwabacher; however some capital letters look like Rotunda.
Hufnagel notation
full-length staff (b2r): 92 x 12 mm
The quality of the musical examples is quite low, and the notation is quite crudely cut. In the first chapters of the edition smaller music examples (width c. 33 mm) are included in the text (a6-a8). The first full-length staff appears on b2r. Sometimes the printer uses a f-clef and a c-clef in one system, sometimes he only uses a c-clef.
example in theory book
Examples of intonations, recitation formulas, exercises for solmisation, etc.
*A-MB, *A-Wn, D-Tu, PL-WRu
Basel: Michael Furter, 1496, vdm: 1324 Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1497, vdm: 1325 Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1500, vdm: 482 Strasbourg: Matthias Hupfuff, 1506, vdm: 481
Ammel, Winfried. Michael Keinspeck und sein Musiktraktat Lilium Musicae Planae, Basel 1496. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970
titlepage is lacking.
1. Tabula novi veteris testamenti. 1490.
2. Johannes Gerson, Opusculum de cognitione. Augsburg: Johannes Froschauer, 1503.
3. Quadragesimale divi concijatoris Pauli wān doctoris sacre theologie in ecclesia collegiata pataviensi. Munich: Johannes Schopffer, s.a.
4. Lilium musicae planae. Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, 1498, vdm: 1326.
on flyleaf: Ex libris Zois Hueberi Brennneiensis [? hard to read].
The M in the shelfmark and the stamp on the binding indicate that this exemplar was formerly owned by the Collegial Monastery of the Augustinians in Salzburg. The monastery has been dissolved in the time of secularization, and the estates were administrated by the Benedictins at Michaelbeuern. During the Second Worldwar the library was transferred to their archives.
Good. Minor water damage. The pages are a little worn at the bottom corners.
Modern pencil foliation (1-16). Manuscript additions by various (16 century?) hands on b7v and b8v. There is some faint hand-colouring on the title woodcut. In addition, the names of Pythagoras and Musica have been crossed out.
Fragment