[Basel]: [Michael Furter], [1511], vdm: 3
MVsica getutscht vnd || auszgezogẽ durch Sebastianũ virdung Priesters || von Amberg vnd alles gesang ausz den notẽ in die || tabulaturẽ diser benantẽ dryer Instrumẽtẽ der Or||geln: der Lautẽ:vnd đ Flöten transferieren zu lernẽ || Kurtzlich gemacht zu eren dẽ hochwirdigẽ hoch||gebornen fürsten vnnd herren: herr wilhalmen || Bischoue zü Straszburg seynem gnedigẽ herren.||
[Basel]
Theory book
There are two editions of this book published in the same year by the same printer. There are minor variations between these editions in the title page. It is unclear which of the not yet inspected copies belongs to the (a)- or (b)-edition. No printer, place of publication or date of publication are mentioned in the edition. On the attributions and the complex printing process, see Ripin and the edition of 1993. F-Pc (after Brown) is a ghost (see Ripin, p. 192, Fn. 12). The entries in RISM are irregular and incomplete.
A2r-v: Dedication letter, dated “vff zinstag [= Thursday] Margarethe [20 July]. Tusent fünffhundert vnd .xi. Jar.”
Woodcut title border, with acanthus and vine patterns.
A1v: Woodcut arms, apparently of dedicatee (Wilhelm I (III) von Hohnstein), bishop of Strasbourg.
A4r: Woodcut of interlocutors in dialogue, Andreas Silvanus and Sebastianus [Virdung]. Woodcut contains images of rebec and harp.
I2v: Woodcut of lutenist with artist’s monogram VG (Urs Graf), horizontal border on the top.
Several woodcuts of instruments throughout the book.
High German
D-Mbs 4º Mus.th. 1616
D-Mbs, D-B, CH-Bu
woodcut
Schwabacher, Textura, Rotunda, Text printed from woodcut
Rotunda and Textura used only as display types.
In the woodcut the staff, notes and text are printed together.
Tablature (lute: German); Mensural notation; Tablature (organ: German)
Full-length staff (H4v): 143 x 9.5 mm.
See Brown (1511/3) for full details.
G2v-H3r: Woodcut notes set into text: individual notes, ligatures, explanation of tablature notation.
H4v-I1r: Tenorlied for four voices (O haylige / onbeflecte / zart iunckfrawschafft marie) in white mensural notation (woodcut with woodcut initials). Tenor and text on H4v, [Discantus], Altus and Bassus on I1r. Text incipit given in [Discantus] only.
I1v-I2r: Organ intabulation of previous piece (O hailige) with lower three voices in tablature and [Discantus] in mensural notation (note values halved).
M2v-M3r: Lute intabulation.
motet, polyphonic song, music for lute or other plucked instruments, music for instrumental ensemble, music for solo instrument (exc. keyb., lute, plucked instruments), devotional song
H4v-I1r: German song for four voices (O haylige / onbeflecte / zart iunckfrawschafft marie) in white mensural notation (woodcut), also intabulated for organ and lute.
*CH-Bu, *D-B, *D-Mbs, D-Ngm, *GB-Eu, *GB-Lbl, *US-Bp
The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein). A copy of this edition was once held in the library of St Anne in Augsburg (see Schaal). Another copy of one of the variant editions was in the library of Ferdinand Columbus (ca. 1510-1539, no 922) (see Plamenac).
[Basel]: [Michael Furter], [1511], vdm: 584 [Augsburg]: [Johannes Schönsperger the Younger], [1512–1521 c.], vdm: 153
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht. A Treatise on musical instruments (1511). Edited by Beth Bullard. Cambridge: CUP, 1993
Lindmayr-Brandl, Andrea. “Peter Schöffer der Jüngere, das Erbe Gutenbergs und die ‘wahre Kunst des Druckens’.” In NiveauNischeNimbus. Die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, edited by Birgit Lodes, 283-312. Tutzing: Schneider (Wiener Forum für ältere Musikgeschichte, 3), 2010: 283-312
Ripin, Edwin M. “A Reevaluation of Virdung’s ‘Musica getutscht’.” JAMS 29 (1976): 189-223
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 165)
Richard Schaal. Das Inventar der Kantorei St. Anna in Augsburg. Ein Beitrag zur protestantischen Musikpflege im 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert. Bärenreiter: Kassel 1965. (p. 64)
Plamenac, Dragan. “Excerpta Colombiniana: Items of musical interest in Fernando Colóns 'Regestrum.” In: Micelánea en Homenaje a Monsenor Hinigo Angles, Barcelona 1958-1961, vol. 2, pp. 663-687. (p. 670-671)
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht und außgezogen, Facsimile Edition by W. Niemöller. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970; Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht und außgezogen. Facsimile Edition by R. Eitner. Publikationen älterer Praktischer und Theoretischer Musikwerke 11. Berlin: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1882; Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht und außgezogen, Facsimile Edition by L. Schrade. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1931
only gatherings I and K extant; I1 repaired.
CH-Bu
Good.
Title page, sixteenth-century hand: musicam docet amor [Erasmus, Adag. 4, 5, 15]
B1v-2r: “2”, “3”, “4” next to text
E3v-4v: Diatonicum genus, Diatessaron, Cromaticum genus, Enarmonicum genus.
G2r: valor notarum. Quadrilatera, Rombus, Romboidus.
G4v-H1v: Semibreues, Breuis, Longa, geschmigte, vltima Longa, vltima Longa, vltima breuis, Semibreues, Mit [?] Rauten.
H2v: Maxima.
H3v: Punctus additionis, Punctus diuisionis.
I3v-4r: 1. der grosprummer. 2. mitler prumer. 3. klaÿn prumer. 4. groß sangk saÿt. 5. Claÿn sanck saÿt. 6. Quint saÿt.
K1r: Synaphe. Diezeüsis.
Library markings from the eighteenth or nineteenth century, not recorded.
D-B
A4v: ms comments.
Fol. F3v-4v: ms comments in margin.
Fol. G3r-v: “Nota
D-Mbs
„Priestern“ : „Priesters“ on title page; imperfect
The first folio is a scan from a different copy (therefore: Priestern); f. 2 is loose.
„Priestern“ : „Priesters“ on title page (copy from other exemplar)
Purchased by the British Library in 1918 from Alfred Littleton (Ripin, p. 192; Brown p. 21/note 5).
hand-coloured