Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1505, vdm: 387
Opus Aureum.|| Musice castigatissimū || de Gregoriana et figuratiua atq𝔷 con||trapūcto simplici percōmode tra||ctans om̃ibꝰ cantu oblectā-||tibus vtile et necessa-||rium e diuersis || excerptum.|| Fata regunt finem. spero dij cepta secundent || Qui ducis vultus & non legis ista libenter || Omnibus inuidias. liuide nemo tibi.||
fol. H5r: ¶ Explicit opusculū musices oībꝰ volentibꝰ cantū vtrū-||q𝔷 tam Gregorianum q̃𝔷 etiam Figuratiuū scire summe ne||cessariū fausto fine Impressum Colonie in officina ho-||nestoꝝ liberoꝝ pie memorie Henrici Quentell. Anno || domini. M.ccccc.qͥnto.||
Cologne
Theory book
This is a new edition of vdm 362; the musical examples are the same; the layout is very similar.
Melchior Schanppecher is the author of the last two parts of the book, the Musica figurativa.
1v: Epigramma Ad lectorem.
A2r-v: In musicam prefatio.
H5v: Nicolaus Wollick de Serouilla Artium magister domino Ade Popardiensi ... in gymnasio Corueliano regenti Salutem. P. D.
Latin
GB-Lbl K.1.h.6
D-Mbs, D-B (1), US-Wcm, A-Wn
empty staff lines; woodcut
Textura, Uncial, Rotunda, Antiqua (Roman)
From a comparison with Quentell 1501 it becomes apparent that the woodblocks for the music examples were re-used, but newly set (text is set in between - overall size of page differs). Types 5, 9, 10, 12 (Proctor).
Hufnagel notation
Full length staff (B4v): 93 x 14 mm.
Top of top staff to bottom of lowest: 139.5 mm
example in theory book
A-KR, A-Wn, CH-Lw, *D-B, D-B, D-F, D-LEm, D-Mbs, D-Rp, GB-Gm, *GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl, H-Kf, NL-DHgm, US-NYp, US-R, US-Wcm
Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1501, vdm: 362 Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1504, vdm: 364 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 (57, 1395)
A-Wn
The four arithmetical treatises listed in an original table of contents on the inside front cover are no longer present. In its present state, the volume contains five printed music treatises and one manuscript treatise on chant, not further identified; description in RISM BIII/3, pp. 36-37.
Hortulus musices practicae [Lotter 1518] - D-B
Compendiaria musicae artis editio [Stöckel 1516] (a) - D-B
Musicae activae micrologus [Schumann 1517] - D-B (2)
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - D-B (2)
Round stamp on the title-page of item 1: Königl. Pr. Bibliothek zu Erfurt.
D-B (1)
D-Mbs
Heavily annotated in sixteenth-century hand. Many comments in margins.
Music notation added to the printed empty staff lines in quite akward handwriting. "The reader seems to be less well-trained in the basics of musical notation." (Forscher Weiss, 233, see figure 11.13b).
US-Wcm