Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1504, vdm: 364
Opus Aureum.|| Musice castigatissimũ || de Gregoriana et Figuratiua atq𝔷 con||trapũcto simplici percõmode tra||ctans om̃ibꝰ cantu oblectan||tibus vtile et necessa-||rium e diuersis || excerptum || Fata regunt finem. Spero dij cepta secundent || Qui ducis vultus & non legis ista libenter || Omnibus inuideas. Liuide nemo tibi ||
fol. H5r: ¶ Explicit opusculū musices oībꝰ volentibꝰ cantum || utrūq𝔷 scire necessariū fausto fine Impressum Colo-||nie in edibus honesti viri Henrici Quentell. Anno || domini. M.ccccc.iiij.||
Cologne
Theory book
Melchior Schanppecher is the author of the last two parts of the book, the Musica figurativa.
Latin
D-Mbs 4° Mus th. 1778
D-Mbs, US-Wc, A-Wn
woodcut; empty staff lines
Types 5, 9, 10, 12 (Proctor).
Hufnagel notation
example in theory book
A-Iu, A-Wn, B-Bc, CH-Fcu, D-B, D-BAs, D-Gs, D-LEm, D-Mbs, D-MÜp, DK-Kk, F-Pn, GB-Ctc, GB-Lbl, *GB-T, NL-DHgm, US-CA, US-NH, US-Wc
Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1501, vdm: 362 Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1505, vdm: 387 Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1508, vdm: 388 Strasbourg: Johann Prüss the Elder, 1510, vdm: 389
Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (56, 10385)
A-Wn
D-Mbs
"A few staves contain notation in a hand similar to that found in the first half of the book, a hand that appears to have familarity with the material." A5: "doodle of a pan pipe and a hexachord copied in the margin next to the text" (Forscher Weiss, 231-233; see also Figures 11.12 and 11.13a).
Forscher Weiss, Susan: “Vandals, Students, or Scholars. Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks.” In Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Russel E. Murray Jr. et al., 207-246. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010
US-Wc