vdm16

Collectanea quaedam musicae disciplinae utilia quam necessaria.

Frankfurt an der Oder: [Johannes Hanau the Elder], 1513, vdm: 416

BASICS

Title page:

COllectanea quedam Mu||sice discipline vtilia ꝗ̃ necessaria in || vnũ redacta diligenterq𝔷 || castigata.|| [epigram by Blasius Sonnenstuhl]||

Colophon:

Est vobis: lectores amandi: opusculum Musices perpul⸗||chrum sane quoddam: q̃𝔷uis Calcographus notulas mi⸗||nus adiunxerit: nō erratui suo ascribetis velim || sed raritudini. Impressum Frācophor||dio ad Oderam. 4. Kal’. Ia||uuarias [sic]. Anno. 1513.

Author:

Johannes Volckmar

Printer:

[Johannes Hanau the Elder]

Place of printing:

Frankfurt an der Oder

Year:

1513

Further information on dating: from colophon

Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:

RISM B/6 p. 871

VD16 V 2234

vdm

416

Further details:

The woodcut on the title page and D6v also reappear in VD16 S 2074, the colophon of which identifies the printer as Johannes von Hanau. The colophon of the present book begs the reader to excuse the fact that there is no printed music, laying it not to the charge of the printer, but to the rarity of music printing.

Further contributors: Blasius Sonnenstuhl; Johannes Volckmar

Paratexts:

A1r: BLASII SONNENSTVL MARIO-||POLITANI. IN LAVDEM MVSI||ces commendatio. || Musica qui quondam fuerat celebrata per orbem? […]
A1v: Letter of dedication: Ioannes Volckmar omnibus dominis scholasticis. S.P.D. [A]dmonuistis iampridem scholastici candidissimi: quo ad preces […]. Dated Frankfurt a. d. Oder, decimooctauo Kal’. Ianuarias. Anno millesimoquingentesimotredecimo [= 15 Dec. 1512]. Followed by a tetrastich (Iuppiter altitonans meritum concede laborem […].)

Illustrations:

A1r: Historiated initial C, two border woodcuts at the bottom of the page, one with a deer, the other with a youth aiming a bow and arrow.
D6v: woodcut of arms of bishop.

Language:

Latin

Format:

8º

Printed area: 113 x 159 mm

Number of leaves:

Collation: A-D6.

Autopsy copy:

D-B Mus. ant. theor O 15a

Online facsimile:

D-B

D-B Mus. ant. theor O 15a, A1r

DETAILS

Technique for printing music:

empty staff lines

Remarks on printing:

Even within the text spaces are left to insert musical signs etc. by hand.

Number of staff lines:

Number of voices:

1, 4

Measurements:

the staff lines are printed from woodcuts. the first is:
length: 110 mm, 16 mm high
others are of slightly different length

Comments on notation:

Staff lines for music for four voices (Discantus, Tenor, Altus, Bassus).

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Standard musical examples for both chant and mensural music. For examples first on intervals, psalm intonations, then note values, punctuation, mensuration etc.

Copies:

*D-B

D-B Mus. ant. theor O 15a, A2v

COPIES

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

Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. O 15a (Beiband 2)

Condition:

Heavily used

Classification of binding:

later / modern binding

Description of binding: Twentieth-century brown leather binding with gold stamping on spine, and slipcase.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Musicae activae micrologus [Schumann 1517] - D-B (1)

Manuscript additions or corrections:

All the musical examples and notation examples in the text have been added by hand, on the printed staves. Heavy annotation on fol. A1r-v in an early sixteenth-century hand, perhaps paraphrasing the beginning of Wollick’s Opus aureum.
Great number of handwritten diagrams and further explanations (of note values etc.), as well as entire musical examples entered by hand

Provenance:

On final page a handwritten note mentioning Brandenburg.

Link to online scan:

D-B