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Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1504, vdm: 364

BASICS
Title page:

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 ||

Colophon:

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.||

Author:
Nicolaus Wollick; [Melchior Schanppecher]
Printer:
Heinrich Quentell
Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1504
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 899
VD16 W 4341
vdm
364
Further details:

Melchior Schanppecher is the author of the last two parts of the book, the Musica figurativa.


Language:

Latin

Format:
Number of leaves:
40
Collation: A6, B4, C6, D-E4, F6, G4, H6.
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs 4° Mus th. 1778


Online facsimile:

D-Mbs, US-Wc, A-Wn


D-Mbs 4° Mus th. 1778, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut; empty staff lines

Remarks on printing:

Types 5, 9, 10, 12 (Proctor).


Notation:

Hufnagel notation


Genre:

example in theory book


Copies:

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

Related editions:

Opus aureum musicae (a).

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1501, vdm: 362


Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1505, vdm: 387


Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1508, vdm: 388


Opus aureum musicae.

Strasbourg: Johann Prüss the Elder, 1510, vdm: 389


Secondary literature:

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)


D-Mbs 4° Mus th. 1778, A5v
COPIES
A-Iu (Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)

A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Link to online scan:

A-Wn


B-Bc (Brussels, Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Bibliothèque)

CH-Fcu (Fribourg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire)
Shelfmark: EF 20

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus.ant.theor. W 91

D-BAs (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek)

D-Gs (Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)

D-LEm (Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek - Musikbibliothek)

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4 Mus.th. 1778
Link to online scan:

D-Mbs


D-MÜp (Münster, Diözesanbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Sant Dr. 997

DK-Kk (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek)

F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Shelfmark: Rès P-V 381
Manuscript additions or corrections:

"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).

Secondary literature:

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


GB-Ctc (Cambridge, Trinity College Library)

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)

GB-T (Tenbury Wells, St. Michael’s College Library)
Shelfmark: (W) Tenbury e.30 (Weston Stack)

NL-DHgm (Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum)

US-CA (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Harvard College Library)

US-NH (New Haven, CT, Yale University, Library)

US-Wc (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Music Division)
Shelfmark: ML171 .V67 1504
Link to online scan:

US-Wc