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Ein newgeordent künstlich Lautenbuch.

Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1536, vdm: 33

BASICS
Title page:

Ein Newgeordent Künstlich Lau⸗||tenbuch/ In zwen theyl getheylt. Der erst für die anfahenden || Schuler/ die aus rechter kunst vnd grundt nach der Tabulatur/ sich one || einichen Meyster darin zuüben haben durch ein leicht Exempel dieser || punctlein . .. ... .... wohin man mit einem yedē finger recht greiffen || sol. Weyter ist angezeigt/ wie mā die Tabulatur auch die Men||sur/ uñ die gantz Application recht grundtlich lernen vñ versteen sol.|| Im andern theyl sein begriffen/ vil außerleßner kunstreicher stuck/|| von Fantaseyen/ Preambeln/ Psalmen vnd Muteten/ die von den hochberümb⸗||ten vñ besten Organisten/ als ein schatz gehalten/ die sein mit sonderm fleiß auff || die Organistisch art gemacht vnd colorirt/ für die geübten vnd erfarnen di⸗||ser kunst/ auff die Lauten dargeben. Dergleichen vormals nie im || Truck/ Aber yetzo durch mich Hansen Newsidler Lutinisten || vnd Bürger zu Nürnberg/ offenlich außgangen.|| Mit Röm. Keys. vnd Königk. Ma. freyheit/ in || funff iaren nit nach zu trucken/ begnadet.||

Colophon:

Getruckt zu Nurmberg bey Johan Petreio/ durch angebung und || verlegung/Hansen Newsidler Lutinisten/ bürtig vō Preßburck || jetzt bürger zu Nurmberg. Anno Tausent funff || hundert uñ sechs und dreyßig.|| (fol. x4r)

Author:
Hans Neusidler
Printer:
Johann Petreius
Publisher: Hans Neusidler
Place of printing:

Nuremberg

Year:
1536
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Tablature book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 N 521
RISM B/1 1536/12
USTC 645288
VD16 ZV 11665
vdm
33
Further details:

Often bound together with the second part (vdm 34).


Further contributors: Hans Neusidler
Privilege:

„Mit Röm. Keys. vnd Königk. Ma. freyheit/ in || funff iaren nit nach zu trucken/ begnadet.“ (title page); entire privilege (“Wir Ferdinand von Gottis genaden“) printed on fol. a2r, dated „in vnser Statt Wien den fünffzehenden tag des monats Maij/ im Funffzehnhundert vnd funffunddreissigisten vnserer Reich des Römischen im Fünfften / vnd der andern im Neunten Jarn.“

Paratexts:

a2v–3r: Preface: “Dem gütigen Leser glück und hayl.” (Appears also in vdm 1136).
x3v: “Hie würt angezeigt/ was in dem buch falsch ist” (errata).
x4r: Afterword.
[z]1r–2r: Index of pieces.

Illustrations:

b2r: woodcut of an open hand with dots on each finger.
[z]3v-4r: woodcut of a lute giving the names of the strings and further explanations (appears also in cdm 1118).


Language:

High German

Format:
4º oblong
Printed area: 161 x 112 mm
Number of leaves:
88
Collation: a-x4, [z4].
Original foliation:

None

Autopsy copy:

D-W 2.14 Musica


Online facsimile:

D-Mbs, D-HAu, US-Wc


D-Mbs 4° Mus pr 439, a1r

D-Mbs 4° Mus pr 439, a2r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

single impression

Text font:

Schwabacher, Fraktur

Remarks on printing:

Fraktur is only used as a display font. The lute tabulature is printed with up to five different signs underneath each other: flags for note value, points to indicate fingers, and letters. Petreius frequently also prints the little flags in the explanatory section of the text. Only the title of the pieces are given at the beginning of each piece, no further text.


Notation:

Tablature (lute: German)

Measurements:

Height of flags for lute tabulature: 10.0 mm.


Genre:

music for lute or other plucked instruments, example in theory book

Repertoire:

The book begins with an explanation of lute tablature and how to play the lute, including several examples in lute tablature. There is then a large section with pieces in lute tablature (dances, fifty-two intabulations of German Lied settings, etc). Composer names only through concordances: Benedictus, Ulrich Brätel, Sixt Dietrich, Wolfgang Grefinger, Mathias Greitter, Paul Hofhaimer, Jörg Schönfelder, Ludwig Senfl, Thomas Sporer, Thomas Stoltzer, Paul Wüst.

Named composers:

Alexander Agricola; Heinrich Isaac


Copies:

CH-BEsu, CH-ZO, D-B, D-HAu, D-LEm, D-LEm, *D-Mbs, *D-W, DK-Kk, E-Mn, F-Ssp, GB-Ob, PL-Kj, PL-LEtpn, US-Wc

Copies in historical catalogues:

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein).


Secondary literature:

Teramoto, Mariko, and Armin Brinzing. Katalog der Musikdrucke des Johannes Petreius in Nürnberg (Catalogus musicus 14). Kassel: 1993 (no. 1)
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 293)

Print facsimile:

Neusidler, Hans. “Ein neugeordnetes künstliches Lautenbuch” (Band 1), Facsimile Edition by Peter Päffgen. In Institutio pro arte testudinis: Series A; 1. Neuss: Junghänel, Päffgen, Schäffer, 1974


D-Mbs 4° Mus pr 439, d3v

D-Mbs 4° Mus pr 439, a4v
COPIES
CH-BEsu (Bern, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: MUE Hospinian 141

CH-ZO (Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek)

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

D-HAu (Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt)
Link to online scan:

D-HAu


D-LEm (Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek - Musikbibliothek)
Shelfmark: II. 6. 7

D-LEm (Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek - Musikbibliothek)

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4° Mus pr 439
Condition:

Fol. g3 is torn (part missing); fols. 81-87 are missing.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Dark brown leather binding with blind stamping on the front: “LAVTENBV<CH> 1539.” vVrious individual stamps and border stamps combined. On the back of the binding are the initials „H K“ in blind stamping.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Various hand-written entries on the front paste-down. In two different brown inks is written “Ludere qui nescit campestribus abstinet armis.”
Below, in different hand: “Ottonis sum Harttmanni || Neostadiensis ad Orilam” [Neustadt an der Hardt, Bavaria].
On title page again the name: “Otto Harttmann me possidet” in brown ink.
In similar brown ink some annotations; once two sayings, one in Latin, one in German.
On inside of back binding: pen-trials in brown ink; often just doodles. Inscription with the name “Georgij Schlybenn.”

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs


D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: 2.14 Musica
Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Full-bound in pigskin with rolling stamps in a frame; inscription on the top of front cover (with ink): „Nº 59.“
Bound with copies from vdm:

Der ander Theil des Lautenbuchs [Petreius 1536] - D-W

Manuscript additions or corrections:

d3v: at the beginning of the first music example: „No. 1.“

Provenance:

Shelfmark on title page, in ink: „2.14. Mus:“


DK-Kk (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek)

E-Mn (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional)
Shelfmark: R/22789

F-Ssp (Strasbourg, Bibliothèque du Séminaire Protestant)
Shelfmark: M 01 (f.k. IIII)

GB-Ob (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
Shelfmark: Mus. 156 e.25Music*

PL-Kj (Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska)
Shelfmark: Mus.ant.pract. N 175a

PL-LEtpn (Legnica, Biblioteka Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk)
Shelfmark: Lost acc. to Brown

US-Wc (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Music Division)
Shelfmark: MT640 .N3
Comments:

at the end of the copy two fols of anuiscript music in German lute tablature; see Brown

Link to online scan:

US-Wc